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...Olympic Rowing Team and is a candidate of the 1984 squad that will go to Los Angeles this summer. The Soviet Union and a number of its allies will not be going and Altekruse, a 1982 World Championship bronze medalist had the following thoughts about the boycott...
...member of the 1980 U.S. Summer Olympic Team and a candidate for this year's team, the recent Soviet boycott announcement has convinced me of one thing. I should have been a downhill skier' Thirteen Winter Olympics have passed without significant political demonstration while the Summer Olympics have increasingly become the target for political abuse...
...failures of the 1956, 1968, 1976, and 1980 Summer Olympic boycott have merely underscored the popularity of the Games and the important attached by governments, businesses, and the public to participating in them. The Russians and all others should keep this crucial point in mind as far as the Olympics are concerned participation is everything, non-participation is a soon-forgotten memory. The spotlight of the Games exists only for those who take part Nothing short of cancellation or total disruption of the Games will shift this emphasis...
Unfortunately, these may be the outcomes of all these blundering attempts to subordinate the Olympics to matters of politics and principle. What sane nation would agree in advance to commit the enormous financial and administrative resources necessary to stage the games when the possibility of a boycott looms so large...
...constitute two-thirds of the capital's electorate, vs. only about a quarter of Louisiana's. Jackson evidently benefited from apathy and confusion among white Louisiana Democrats. Governor Edwin Edwards, miffed because a federal court ordered Louisiana to hold a primary rather than a caucus, urged a boycott of the polls; so many whites heeded his advice that the total turnout was only about 14% of those eligible...