allies

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His selective scoldings on human rights inflamed Idi Amin and antagonized several Latin American allies, and the State Department has been kept busy explaining ad libs by Carter early on and by his United Nations ambassador, Andrew Young, on the most sensitive world issues.

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  1. an alliance of nations joining together to fight a common enemy
  2. in World War I the alliance of Great Britain and France and Russia and all the other nations that became allied with them in opposing the Central Powers
  3. the alliance of nations that fought the Axis in World War II and which (with subsequent additions) signed the charter of the United Nations in 1945

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