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...this, the year of the Olympic boycott, the U.S. Track and Field Trials were a fast race to nowhere. For American athletes, the road to Moscow was closed when Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan. Still the Trials went on last week in Eugene, Ore., a pleasant college town that calls itself the track and field capital of the nation. At stake was the somewhat empty designation "Olympian," a set of bright new red, white and blue U.S.A. uniforms for the top three finishers in each event, and an invitation to the White House July 30. Though the U.S. Olympic Committee went...
...first in the 400 meters while her younger sister Denean, 15, finished third-was elated with the family parlay. They became the first sisters ever qualified to represent the U.S. in the same Olympic event. Observed Sherri: "We've got a long life ahead of us. But the boycott has taken the edge off some of the top sprinters who were there in '76. We'll be back, but a lot of them won't, and I think it hurt them...
...Connor added that the Chinese support the U.S. boycott of the Moscow Olympics...
...million, which once supported the country's 4.3 million whites in perpetuating the status quo, has become politicized and appears increasingly disposed to make common cause with the 20 million blacks. For the past two months, in every major urban area, colored protesters organized an almost total school boycott of the sort the blacks have repeatedly staged in the past...
European reluctance about sanctions against Iran is defensible; they are clearly not only useless but downright dangerous. Not so economic sanctions against the Soviet Union, which could have had considerable impact. The same goes for the Olympic boycott; symbols do matter, especially to the Soviets. Americans understand why Europe seeks to avoid the economic costs and political risks of stronger measures, but such calculations are dangerously shortrange. The widely heard European argument that one must not isolate the Russians is a half policy at best; where is the other half...