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Robert C. Byrd: “If peace in the Middle East is to become a reality, and if American efforts to bring about that peace are to be more…”

On the recordJune 26, 1974
If peace in the Middle East is to become a reality, and if American efforts to bring about that peace are to be more than just lipservice, it must be a part of our Government's responsibility to insure that no man, or no nation, can murder Americans who are in the performance of their duties abroad, in the knowledge or the assumption that their foul crimes will go unpunished.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
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Jun 26, 1974

Editor's note · Context

Responding to Sudan's handling of the Black September terrorists who killed American diplomats.

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