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I’m very displeased about that comment that the Young and the Restless being more important than the President. Are you promoting racism? You should not have published something like that. It’s ridiculous. The next time you do it, I vow the minorities will stop taking the Washington Daily News.

The answer to the question about gasoline jumping 18 cents per gallon, the answer is pure greed.

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