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Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto on Afghanistan

A news report highlights Pakistan's Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's speech delivered to the U.S. House of Representatives on June 7, 1989, in which she calls for America's continued support for the rebels in Afghanistan.

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