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scientists to their libraries and laboratories. They could open
their frontiers to the free flow and unrestricted sale of books,
magazines and newspapers from other nations. They could invite
other countries to establish and operate libraries and cultural
centers in their leading cities. They could arrange for reciprocal
broadcast time on national television systems, with complete freedom
for the sponsoring country to select the material for its programs.
I would even venture the suggestion that member states might permit
their citizens to see programs telecast from this 18th General
Assembly by the new communications satellites.
X
We stand, I have said, on the threshold of a new historic
epoch. We meet at a moment of new flux and fluidity in human
affairs. This General Assembly has it within its power to disappoint
the hopes and expectations of mankind -- or to give these hopes and
expectations new substance and new force.
The battle for a just and peaceful world will never be won in
a single day or in a single session of the United Nations General
Assembly. But all mankind will listen to your deliberations and
attend to your decisions. Speaking for the United States, I will say,
CONFIDENTIAL
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