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...heft. Access to more bases near the Persian Gulf, a floating contingent of Marines, increased aid to friends and more of everything to follow-all this makes an unmistakable footprint over there. Draft registration, talk of war, so deplored by some, are nevertheless a measure of seriousness. The Olympic boycott, which eventually may not win very many actual backers among other nations, has elevated concern about Soviet aggression in almost every part of the world. New courage to speak out is manifest in many countries because the U.S. has held steady this time. A unity born of crisis is enhancing...
Carter has increased his private correspondence with the other world leaders. He has sent off secret messages to 120 nations about the Olympic boycott. Now there is a discernible shift to our side in their replies...
...possible measures to prevent U.S. athletes from participation in the 1980 Olympics are supposed to be an act of retaliation against the Soviet Union. In practice, however, it poses a threat to the world athletic movement and every other form of international cooperation. The political aim of such a boycott is to divide that unique fraternity of athletes and subvert all other forms of their international cooperation...
...most bizarre diplomatic mission in recent U.S. history. Two weeks ago, Jimmy Carter asked former Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali to undertake a five-nation African tour (Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, Liberia and Senegal) as his special representative to seek support for a boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games. Ali, who was traveling in India, accepted the assignment. By the time he had spent an hour on African soil, however, he was floundering like a Golden Gloves novice against a ring-wise...
Arriving in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Ali immediately demonstrated that he had not been well briefed for his mission. He was apparently unaware that the Soviet Union had been backing revolutionary liberation movements on the continent. Why, some local reporters also demanded, should Africa boycott the Moscow Olympics when four years ago the U.S. had opposed an African Olympic boycott called to protest New Zealand's sporting links with South Africa? Ali fumbled for an answer and found none...