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...that a Soviet invasion of a neighbor could not go unanswered, lest the Soviet army soon be standing guard over the oilfields of the Persian Gulf. Any reaction that conveyed the U.S. outrage in practical terms was better than mere handwringing. Nor are the reprisals necessarily over. A boycott of the Olympic Games remains a definite threat, and there are other means of inciting the world's anger. Indeed, by taking action, even at a considerable cost to its own citizenry, the U.S. becomes a rallying point for other nations that look to it for guidance and inspiration. In that...
...Administration quickly found itself with some unofficial support. Acting on its own, the International Longshoremen's Association declared a boycott in ports from Maine to Texas on all cargo to or from the U.S.S.R., leaving Moscow with no way to obtain the 3.4 million metric tons* of U.S. corn that is exempt from Carter's embargo. The corn is part of the 6 million to 8 million tons that the U.S. had promised to sell to the U.S.S.R. each year under a long-term agreement signed by both governments in 1975; at least an additional 4 million to 6 million...
That warning of a U.S. boycott of the Moscow Games was followed last week by a potentially even more humiliating suggestion from Vice President Walter Mondale. Said he: "It is my personal belief that the Olympics ought to be held somewhere else." Rosalynn Carter, campaigning in Iowa, also said the Olympic site should be changed, and at week's end the State Department said American participation in the Olympics was "an open question...
Thus was the Carter Administration wrestling publicly with the thorny question of whether its reprisals against the Soviets should, for the first time, include the Olympic Games as a target. Many supporters of the Games argue that a boycott for any political reason is totally wrong and inappropriate. "If the Olympic Games are to survive," says Don Miller, executive director of the U.S. Olympic Committee (u.s.o.c.), "they must be apolitical and remain in the private sector...
...major boycott or relocation of the Games would deeply embarrass and disappoint the Kremlin, which has tried ever since the early '60s to be named as host. Soviet leaders, notoriously insecure about their country's position in the world, view the Moscow Games as a way to greatly increase their nation's prestige, even as a way to legitimize their system. In the past three years, the Soviets have spent an estimated $375 million in constructing facilities. They are looking forward to tourist crowds of up to 300,000, plus, more important, world television audiences...