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An entertainment union has filed race and age discrimination charges against President Reagan’s inaugural committee for seeking in an advertisement 200 “clean-cut, all-American types” to perform for free, a union official said in New York. In another complaint, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists asked the Labor Department to force the committee to pay inaugural performers the federal minimum wage of $3.35 an hour. White House spokesman Larry Speakes has explained that Reagan, who served six terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild, had not known of the advertisement.

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