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-11 - on the agenda of this Assembly were taken off the debating schedule and placed on the ne- gotiating table. III. The fact remains that the United States, as a ma jor nuclear power, has a special responsibility. It is, in fact, a three-fold re- sponsibility -- a responsibility to our own citizens - a respon- sibility to the people of all the world affected by our decisions - and to the next generation of humanity. We believe the Soviet Union also has these special re-

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