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Preventing Mental Retardation: More Can Be Done

HRD-77-37 Published: Oct 03, 1977. Publicly Released: Oct 03, 1977.
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In November 1971 the President established a national goal of reducing by half the incidence of mental retardation by the end of the century.

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