Arms Export Control Act
United States legislation
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effect on U.S. foreign policy
- In 20th-century international relations: The distraction of Watergate
…in Angola and passed the Arms Export Control Act, removing presidential discretion in supplying arms overseas. New financial controls limited the president’s ability to conclude executive agreements with foreign powers, of which some 6,300 had been signed between 1946 and 1974 as compared with only 411 treaties requiring the Senate’s…
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