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...early January, when Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser announced a hard-line policy toward the Soviets over their invasion of Afghanistan (including a proposed Olympic Games boycott as well as trade sanctions), he was accused of making Australia more important than it really is. Since we didn't rate a mention in your article "Where Are Allies When Needed?" [Feb. 4], maybe in the eyes of the U.S. we really are "the mouse that roared...
...behooves the U.S. to take a holier-than-thou attitude toward the Soviets and to spearhead a drive to boycott the Games in Moscow. The Soviet Union isn't guilty of doing anything in Afghanistan that we haven't already done in Viet Nam on a far grander scale...
WHEN THE U.S. State Department claimed last week that 50 nations will boycott the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow, it may have ushered in the end of the Olympic movement. For while an alternative Olympics would preserve the ideals which the Games seem to represent, they could never reconstruct the spirit of international unity that stands as the real premise of the Games...
...this reason the Games ought not--cannot--be allowed to disappear. The U.S. boycott of the Olympic Games could harm whatever concern remains about the common interests of mankind. It goes beyond athletic concerns, affecting the political drama which led to it in the first place. And if the Olympic movement itself is allowed to die, hope for relieving these tensions could also...
...voted for the United Nations General Assembly resolution condemning the Afghanistan invasion. True, France has not followed the U.S. lead in imposing economic sanctions-though it pledged, along with other Community members, not to take advantage of opportunities created by the American grain embargo-nor has it backed the boycott of the Moscow Summer Olympics. The French explain that this is not because they disagree with the Carter Administration's actions but rather because European nations should use tactics better suited to them. "The West's diversity is its strength," says one Paris diplomat...