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Deductions & credits

In one place, IRS instructions  seem to say that you can take the Foreign Income Exclusion and also make an IRA contribution.  And in another place ( page 7 of Pub 590a) it says that "excluded" income  can not be counted as "compensation" required to make IRA contributions.  My question:  can one exclude most but not all of  one's foreign income, pay regular taxes on the remaining portion of NON-excluded income, and make IRA contributions against the NON-excluded income?