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editorial, Ambassador Carter was promoted and assigned to
Liberia. On reflection on the aftermath of the controversy, Carter said, "Once you start thinking of one life as different from a thousand lives, you've lost it all." (NYT Editorial,"Humane Diplomat", August 14, 1975)
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