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Though the opposition's top figure, Zbigniew Bujak, 29, remained at large, the capture of Lis depressed efforts to organize a boycott of Sunday's elections for 7,040 regional and 103,388 local posts. Lis had led the campaign, urging Poles to deny the military regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski the opportunity to claim it had the support of the people...
...Boycott activity had been consider able in recent weeks...
Czechoslovakia's team, the 1980 Olympic gold medalists Cambridge for the scheduled to bring their squad Cambridge for the first round, but their nation's decision to join the Soviet-led Olympic boycott opened a slot for Norway, even though they had not qualified earlier...
...posed by the Third World's towering debt. The West Europeans also had to weigh their actions at the summit carefully in view of this week's elections for the European Parliament. Above all, there was the deplorable state of East-West relations, epitomized by the Soviet boycott of the Los Angeles Olympics and the surly and frustrated utterances that emerged from the Kremlin almost daily...
Mixing sports and politics is fashionable, but in Bolivia the combination tends to be downright confusing. Four years ago, Bolivia did not send a team to the 1980 Summer Olympics. Though officials blamed a strapped economy, some accused the government of joining the U.S. boycott of the Moscow Games...