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and are attempting to roll it back.

Clark:

Roll it back! Yes!

Q:

Now, I'm thinking of the Republican mayor of Indianapolis who has been on t.v. several times, especially McNeill-Lehrer. He says, “They don't want it rolled back.”

Clark:

That's right.

Q:

“They finally got the accommodations that were necessary,” at least specifically in the police department in Indianapolis.

Clark:

I don't understand why they--and their rationale that this is discriminatory would mean that they feel that any attempt to remedy discrimination is discriminatory. Any attempt to deal with disease that provides special medicines is undesirable.

Q:

Now, isn't there another dimension to the Reagan administration's effort to roll back some of the integration movement that did occur. I'm thinking now on education where Ronald Reagan is said to be ready to approve financial vouchering for parents who can then use the value of those vouchers in any school, whether it's--not just public school but private school, parochial school, or other private schools.

Clark:

Whether they're integrated or not. Well, there is also the





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