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Justice Department and Reagan wanting tax deductions or tax relief--

Q:

Yes.

Clark:

I find, it--in a way, I guess it's complimentary in they're asserting that blacks have been remedied enough. Where their data comes from to support that, I don't know. They've gone too far, I guess. They haven't looked at the unemployment statistics. They haven't looked at the poverty data, inner city debilitative housing. I don't know what they've looked at.

Q:

Would you add to that the health data? Just within the last few weeks there've been a couple of reports on poor health in the deprived black communities both among the children and adults.

Clark:

Right.

Q:

But especially among children.

Clark:

But they're also against abortion, or I presume they must be against contraception. I don't understand the perspectives that are based upon insights and data which have been kept from me.

Q:

Now, another series of reports have come out recently, and there are others before, it has to do with the scores of black school children in different areas. I think you've discussed this somewhat before but there have been at least a couple of quite, I would





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