Word: blacklistings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distributed the names of 159 athletes from 16 nations who have competed in South Africa from September to December of 1980-and urged countries to ban them. The movement has since been endorsed by a number of nations and international organizations, including the U.N. Special Committee Against Apartheid. The blacklist includes U.S. Tennis Players Stan Smith, Pat DuPre and Bob Lutz, World Boxing Association Heavyweight Champion Mike Weaver, British Golfer Nick Faldo and the entire French rugby team. Further additions are promised -possibly including Lee Trevino, who last month won a tournament in South Africa. As it is, the list...
...scope of the blacklist may soon widen to include not only athletes who have played in South Africa and those who have visited there for sporting events, but also athletes who play against South African teams on their own soil. Former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Floyd Patterson was named simply because he attended a boxing bout held in South Africa as a spectator. The British cricketer expelled from Guyana, Robin Jackman, was so treated because he is married to a South African and spends the whiter in that country. Fearing boycotts, Australia has even refused the South African Springbok rugby...
While the blacklist is forging a new sensitivity among fans and athletes, it is hardly delivering a crushing blow to front-rank competitors. It is supported largely by Third World nations, where comparatively few major international sporting events occur. Still, the blacklist is resented by many athletic figures as an unnecessary intrusion of politics into sport. "Barbaric," says U.S. Boxing Promoter Bob Arum, who has helped organize fights in South Africa. U.S. Tennis Player Brian Gottfried, who is not on the list, nonetheless calls it "a damned scandal...
NCPAC's job will be far tougher in 1982 because most of the liberals on its blacklist are from densely populated states, which are harder to inundate with propaganda. Dolan succeeded this year in Idaho, South Dakota and Iowa--states with small and increasingly conservative constituencies--but he flopped in California, where Alan Cranston held onto his seat...
Although a complete accounting is impossible, most of the victims have now been found, he says. They included actors, writers, directors, American culture, and the right of free expression. The father of the high-school girl friend, for example, had been a prominent scriptwriter before he was blacklisted for "subversive" activities and forced to find work parking cars. The chess teacher was J. Edward Bromberg, an actor who died shortly after he was compelled to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in ill-health and against doctor's orders. The law school friend's mother had gone...