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...last Games to be left unscathed by the non-athletic tug of war between rival states took place in 1968. Since then, we've seen the massacre of 11 Israelis in Munich, the African boycott of Montreal, the U.S. no-show in Moscow, and now, the big nyet from Chernenko and Co. Nor do prospects for the future look good. The 1988 Games were awarded to South Korea, thereby presenting Big Brother to the North with an ideal opportunity to wreak havoc upon its estranged friends to the South. And of course, Soviet-South Korean relations being what they...
...time, members of the Dartmouth Group labeled the Soviet attitude as unexpectedly negative, primarily because it came only one month after some relatively moderate public remarks by the new Soviet leader Konstantin U. Chernenko and some less strident comments to two visiting U.S. senators...
Shortly after Yuri Andropov succeeded Leonid Brezhnev as Soviet leader in November 1982, there was talk in Moscow of a face-saving pullout from the costly war of attrition. But Konstantin Chernenko, who replaced Andropov after that leader's death last February, seems uninterested in the notion. "We detected a hardening once Chernenko came to power," says Abdullah Osman, head of the Mujahedin-run Union of Afghan Doctors. Sure enough, Soviet troops recently stepped up patrols along both the southeastern border with Pakistan and the western border with Iran. "If the enemies of the motherland do not surrender," warned...
...White House responded that it was "disappointed by the tone" of Chernenko's remarks...
...Coalition, he added, "I don't know the group. There are a lot of nutty groups; that's one. It's a wonderful thing about freedom in this country. People can like or dislike anything they want." Perhaps the best hope for Soviet participation is that Chernenko would not wish to cause the uproar and ill will in the East bloc countries that would be the consequence of a pullout from the Summer Games...