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It turned out that [Bill] Clinton had authorized Texaco to illegally ship oil to the military junta [in Haiti] during a time when we were supposedly opposing the military junta and supporting democracy instead.

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Noam Chomsky
Age: 95
Born: 1928
Born: December 7
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