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Clark:

No. When I was in Jamaica, I was there to rest, recuperate and to block out even the more obvious signs of social instability and injustice.

Now, that's possible, then. And I tell you, by God, at least for a week or two, you can cut off your antennas, your sensitivity. My wife says that I couldn't do it, retired there. And she's probably right.

Q:

Just to get it on the record at this point, and perhaps pick this up later, but what other countries have you visited, either recreationally or for social studies?

Clark:

I'll tell you, as far as I can remember -- certainly, many of the West Indian islands. Trinidad. Barbados. The Virgin Islands. Bermuda, Jamaica.

Europe -- well, of course, England, France, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands.

I have not visited, deliberately not visited Germany, although I'm scheduled to give a lecture in Munich this coming spring, a lecture, by the way, on the American Bicentennial and its unfinished business.

I have not visited Spain or Portugal or Greece. I visited all the Scandinavian countries with the exception of Finland -- Norway, Sweden, Denmark. And just within the last month, I spent ten days in South Africa on business, and that's a tale in itself.

I think that's it. I have not visited any of the Asian countries yet.

Q:

African, aside from South Africa?





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