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- ↑ Karem nyx.uky.edu Archived 2015-01-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "2004OH041 Leg 076 | Louie B Nunn Center for Oral History". Archived from the original on 2015-01-23. Retrieved 2015-01-23.
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