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...Olympic Games in Munich, athletes competed beneath the unfurled flags of Nazi Germany--flags symbolizing a regime that spawned worldwide evil and terror. In Atlanta in the summer of 1996, barring significant political developments, athletes will again have to collect their Olympic medals under a flag which represents the vilest capacities of man--the Confederate flag, an integral part of the Georgia state flag. Indeed, both flags stand for a holocaust--one of Jews slaughtered in ovens, the other of Africans who perished during the Middle Passage...
...United States will be disgraced if the Confederate flag flies over the Summer Games in Atlanta. Every decent American should be outraged that the Confederate flag will be displayed to the world, announcing a rejection of all that is upright and noble. Traitors, miscreants and goons from Jefferson Davis to Orville Faubus will be laughing in their graves...
...Andrew's Cross is unfurled over Atlanta this summer, some protests and civil disobedience will probably occur. It would be encouraging to see black athletes raise a black power first during medal ceremonies, as two black track stars did in the 1968 Olympics. (They were subsequently stripped of their medals...
...reservoir--an animal that can house the microbe and not suffer ill effects, or at least not fatal ones. Last June, U.S. researchers collected thousands of tissue samples from insects and small animals living around Kikwit. But tests on the specimens at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta have come up empty...
...ATLANTA: Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes was taken into custody by Atlanta police and whisked away in a van Sunday after trying to enter a television studio for a debate with three of the other GOP contenders to which he had not been invited. Atlanta television station WSB-TV sponsored the debate among Pat Buchanan, Steve Forbes and Lamar Alexander. Bob Dole, the only other candidate invited to the debate, declined to participate. The Atlanta event marked the second time in a week that candidates Keyes, Bob Dornan and Richard Lugar were not asked to participate in a presidential debate...