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Chirac In Washington

NPR
Published January 31, 1996 at 11:00 PM CST

France's President Jacques Chirac on a state visit to Washington addressed a joint session of Congress and got his loudest applause when he spoke of his decision just this week to cease his nation's nuclear testing. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

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