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...outrage that a boycott of the 1980 Olympics is even being considered. The U.S. athletes work under their own steam, without Government aid, toward the biggest achievement in sport, and now the Government wants to use them as a weapon. What could be more unfair...
...Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al Faisal. Arriving in Islamabad, Saud emphasized that the conference must take a strong line on the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, which he said "threatened the independence of Muslim countries." He urged Islamic states to break diplomatic ties with Kabul, boycott the Moscow Olympics and provide assistance to the refugees. In the end, those points were included in the resolution, though only as recommendations. The final vote of the foreign ministers on the anti-Soviet measure was not known but, as one Pakistani diplomat told TIME, "There was no dissenting voice...
...committed; it moves with a concentration so fierce as to be almost abstract. Governments rarely achieve such purity of action. Nonetheless, by last week the U.S. had lumberingly launched the great weight of its foreign policy well past the point of second thoughts, on a course aimed at a boycott of the Moscow Summer Olympics. It is a difficult maneuver; it could end by destroying the modern Olympic Games...
...less unthinkable, unless the Soviets withdraw their forces from Afghanistan in the next few months. That is improbable. So is the possibility, now being discussed, of moving the Games from Moscow to some other city, or postponing them. Jimmy Carter has committed the prestige of his presidency to the boycott. Having ineffectually lectured the Soviets last fall about their troops in Cuba, he cannot now fail to make an Olympic boycott stick, especially in a presidential election year. Nor does Carter stand exactly in embattled isolation on the issue. A chorus of polls and editorial writers has proclaimed a strong...
...boycott or some other kind of protest. The Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers in Islamabad, Pakistan, asked 41 member nations to "envisage nonparticipation" in the Games...