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Robert C. Byrd: “If the responsibility is not squarely placed where it truly belongs, and soon, and pressures brought to bear to end…”

On the recordSeptember 7, 1972
If the responsibility is not squarely placed where it truly belongs, and soon, and pressures brought to bear to end terrorism by cutting off its main means of operation-money-the lust for revenge will insure a sickening bloodbath all over the world.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
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Sep 7, 1972

Editor's note · Context

Calling for exposure of the financing of the Black September terrorists.

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