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...countries like France and Italy remained cool to the boycott proposal. Many of them legalistically pointed out that only national Olympic committees, not national governments, can make such decisions...
...boycott gives those committees around the world all kinds of apocalyptic visions: the sacred grove in ruins, the Games destroyed as surely as they were in A.D. 393, when the Emperor Theodosius proscribed them. If the Americans and others boycott Moscow, they say, then the Soviets might withdraw from the Olympic movement, denouncing it as a "tool of the imperialists." The 1984 Games in Los Angeles will be a forlornly restricted drama without the Soviets and their friends. The Olympics will cease to be a world movement. The Olympic torch will...
...make the right decision in pressing the boycott on the U.S. Olympic Committee and the nation's athletes...
Over the years, political arguments have erupted repeatedly in the Games. At the London Olympics of 1948, the new state of Israel was excluded to forestall an Arab boycott. The 1956 Olympics in Melbourne occurred just after Soviet tanks had rolled into Hungary to crush the uprising there...
...American movement arose in 1935 to persuade U.S. athletes to boycott the Berlin Olympics. It lost. As the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said at the time, it would be unfortunate if the Olympics were "dragged into the arena of political, racial or religious policy." That line is repeated almost exactly in 1980; it is no more valid now than...