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The GOP’s Apartheid Insurrection

Defying Reagan

In a move that would seem unthinkable today, Senate Republicans banded together with Democrats in 1986 to overturn a Ronald Reagan veto of South Africa sanctions.

Eleanor Clift

Published Dec. 10 2013 5:45AM EST

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Eleanor Clift

Eleanor Clift

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