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...headaches this past year watching its allies-its official friends-in various tests and then deciding which of them is worthy of the name. If Britain was true blue in joining the American shout at the Ayatullah, was Australia less of a friend in refusing to support the Olympic boycott? What of France, of France especially, America's oldest international friend, its Revolutionary War buddy? How could it turn its back on the U.S.? The fact is that France, irritating as its behavior may be, as strictly disloyal as it may be, has been behaving more or less...
TIME'S articles convinced me that our Olympic boycott will succeed only in keeping thousands of inquisitive minds from interchanging ideas. Peace and understanding will be the losers...
Consider, for example, the recent news that NBC will lose only $15 million on its investment to cover the Olympics in Moscow--because the network took out insurance when it first bought the rights. Who would ever think of buying insurance three years ago? Obviously, NBC knew about the boycott before the Soviets invaded Afghanistan...
Remember, this is the summer of the Olympic boycott. This is the summer of the magical moments in Moscow that weren't. This is the summer of the convergence between sports and politics...
Extensive research, coupled with confirmation from highly-placed, reliable sources, have provided indisputable evidence that the boycott was done to erase distractions from the public mind so that the national conventions could receive undivided attention this summer...