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Sep 17 2009, Robb

Jimmy Carter was President of the US in the late 1970s and he, together with the likes of his UN ambassador, Andrew Young, Henry Kissinger – a political adviser to many US Presidents – then British Premier Margaret Thatcher and Lord Soames, were all..

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