She was nine years old at the time. She remembers her mother on her knees, begging French police to take her but to spare her children.

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If you're an oil rich country today, as long as that oil lasts, you got the world kind of at your knees.

如果你今天是富油国,并且能保持稳定的产油量,那整个世界都会匍匐在你的跟前

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