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...each meeting, in his lawyer-like fashion, Vance unfurled a detailed brief urging Europe to support the U.S. boycott of the Moscow Olympics and its embargo of grain and high technology sales to the Soviet Union. Vance also called for a beefing-up of NATO and increased European military aid to Pakistan and Turkey. Above all, he preached unity, warning that the Kremlin must not be allowed to drive a wedge between the allies...
...Bonn the Secretary had to mollify some outspoken critics of U.S. moves in the post-Afghanistan era. Certain West German officials had privately derided Carter's Olympic boycott as "downright dumb." Chancellor Helmut Schmidt resented not being consulted in advance about this decision. A bare two hours' notice on the day of its announcement, he observed unsmilingly, was "a little late." The West Germans also feared serious setbacks to their international trade if they followed Carter's proscriptions on commercial dealings with Moscow...
...Washington's biggest disappointments last week was Vance's failure to win firm European commitments to the Olympic boycott. On Wednesday, the deadline President Carter had set for Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, the State Department announced a "final and irrevocable" U.S. decision to boycott the Games. Officials of the U.S. Olympic Committee said they would keep their options open in hopes that a future Soviet withdrawal might yet enable their teams to participate. Although Britain has already joined the 50 countries that have promised to back the boycott, West Germany and Italy have deferred a final decision...
...embarrassing Olympic boycott pledge of support came last week from South Africa, one of 120 countries to receive a letter from Washington urging support of the U.S. stand. The South Africans, who have been banned from all Olympic events since 1964, assured the U.S., tongue in cheek, that they would definitely not be going to Moscow this summer...
...tanker, the Atlantic Empress. In addition, members face potential claims of $75 million from RCA for a communications satellite lost in space and perhaps a further $75 million from NBC if the network ends up not televising the Moscow Olympics because of the U.S. boycott...