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Clark:

Yes.

Q:

Would you say that this is one area-- this area of civil rights, whether it's in this country or in South Africa, this is one area where the Reagan Administration has displayed a certain consistency?

Clark:

Well, I don't think there's any question about it. The Reagan Administration has been very consistent about race relations, not only in South Africa, but here too. So there is no inconsistency.

Q:

Incidentally, what was your purpose in going to South Africa?

Clark:

I went to find out what the blacks and the Coloureds in South Africa thought about the disinvestment thing. I had a client-- a corporation, one of the large corporations in the United States-- who had been invited by a South African corporation to do a joint venture, that was to help in training and employing blacks in the “homelands”. And I did a study of what blacks in the United States thought about it and what the church groups in the United States thought about it. But to me that was not enough. I wanted to know what blacks in South Africa thought, and I had to go there to find out. And I took a group, a team, including, interestingly enough, a South African black who was at Harvard at the time, Percy Qaboza, who went back





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