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...when most of the African countries boycotted the Montreal Olympic Games, the Western nations said: "Sports and politics should not be mixed." Surprisingly, they are now considering a boycott themselves...
...cannot judge whether the U.S. should boycott the Olympic Games, but I do wonder about the comparative costs of the movement of Soviet troops into Afghanistan and of the TV networks' right to televise the Games. Is it possible that the invasion was funded...
...Olympic movement might be mortally wounded. Said Kane: "There would no longer be Olympic Games. They would not be a global enterprise any more." On the other hand, the threat of boycott revived an old suggestion: that the Games be permanently located in a small country, thus making them less vulnerable to the pressures of high-powered international politics. President Carter favors this step. He believes that the most logical site would be Greece, where the Olympic torch first flickered...
...revolution," the 86 remaining American media representatives in the country were expelled; British and Western European correspondents were put on notice that they might be next (see PRESS). The Carter Administration, faced with mounting domestic pressure over the hostages, continued its efforts to organize an international economic boycott of Iran, despite the Soviet veto of a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for sanctions...
...boasted that "these kinds of pressures don't deter us at all," and sternly advised other nations to stay out of Washington's "political games." Oil Minister Ali Akbar Moinfar announced that Iran would immediately cut off oil shipments "to any country that joins the U.S. economic boycott against Iran." That threat was particularly alarming to Japan, which is almost entirely dependent on foreign oil, 11% of which comes from Iran...