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...Olympic arena is commonly viewed as the arena of world politics, with the U.S. and Soviet Union each trying to prove itself better than the other while all the other "little" countries try to show the superpowers up. If I support such a drastic action as divestment, an Olympic boycott would seem natural. After all, a boycott-supporter might justifiably ask, how can a Black man with any self-respect compete with a "representative" of South Africa's racist regime...
...think Edwards and any athletes contemplating a boycott; should take Owens's action to heart. Owens probably would have gone to the Olympics even if they were held in Johannesburg. He probably knew that you can never eliminate all the injustice in the world, and that it would be futile to boycott the Olympics because of it. That doesn't mean an athlete shouldn't take action against injustice when he's off the playing field. But on the playing field, well, that's something different: it's a place where a Black man and an "Aryan" German can shake...
...firm believer in idealism, and idealism seems to be what the Olympics are all about in the first place. When we forget that, and fail to rise above the frequent baseness of politics, we must confront the blood of Israeli weighlifters--as in Munich in 1972--a boycott by 26 Black African nations in 1976, an American-led boycott by 55 nations in 1980, and a retaliatory Soviet boycott...
...apartheid cuts deep, and will be harder for athletes, both white and Black to ignore. But in they don't the point of the Olympics will be lost once again, as was in 1972, 1976, 1980 and 1984 I can only hope that people really don't like the boycott Mr. Edwards--and not because he's Black...
...complained that "still, under the Senate proposal, the Pentagon would receive an increase for inflation while domestic programs would be frozen or cut." Gray pledged a "more equitable" House resolution. His opposite number in the Senate, Domenici, replied that rather than agree to any further military cuts he would boycott an eventual House-Senate conference and leave Congress with no budget resolution...