Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations for 1990: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, Part 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989 |
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