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...Soviets and more than a dozen Communist countries stayed away, suggesting that the Games would end in terrorism and ruin. Some said that the Los Angeles smog would choke the runners, that the extra traffic would bring the freeways to a fuming standstill, that the Soviet boycott would turn the Games into a * financial disaster and render them athletically meaningless. But nothing of the kind occurred...
...year, for the first time, the Games received almost no government funds and ended up with an unimaginable surplus of $215 million --and the sum could reach $250 million by June. To do this, Ueberroth mustered a force of 72,000, about half of them volunteers. Despite the Soviet boycott, the Games became one of the greatest athletic spectacles in history...
...boycott, as it turned out, brightened the mood of the Games, if not necessarily the quality of the competition. The success of the Games was Ueberroth's, and America's, unanswerable reply to the Soviets. The Games drew a vivid implicit contrast between American and Soviet styles--the American Games all light and air and flashing motion (the essence of freedom dramatized), while the Soviets sulked in their totalitarian dusk...
While corporations sometimes withdraw advertising to protest articles they do not like, it is rare for a business to close its doors entirely to a news organization. Detroit's automakers, for example, have a selective boycott of television. Since 1980 General Motors executives have refused to grant interviews to reporters from CBS's 60 Minutes or ABC's 20/20 because the networks will not allow the company to edit the videotapes. Ford generally limits interviews with television reporters to brief exchanges. A Ford spokesman claims that when the networks edit a longer interview, "questions and answers...
...press also doubted that Mobil's boycott would work. Said Sheldon Zalaznick, managing editor of Forbes: "This is corporate governance by tantrum. They will not get what they want, which is a better-behaved Wall Street Journal." Zalaznick thinks Mobil will eventually realize that and reopen the door. When it does, Schmertz will doubtless have plenty to say. -By Janice Castro. Reported by Barry Kalb/New York