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...latest refusal to participate in the Olympics shows the desperate need for the Games to be depoliticized. Greece is the only place for the Games to be permanently seated. To have the Olympics reduced to a convenient political tool of the superpowers is a crime that all athletes should condemn...
Iraq attacked two Iranian oil facilities last week; the damage was apparently slight, and Iran did not respond. While the Arab states tried to get the United Nations Security Council to condemn Iran for its intransigence, Syria, at the behest of the Saudis, sent to Tehran a delegation headed by Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam. He reportedly carried a Saudi offer to try to press Iraq to lift its siege of Iranian oil ports if Khomeini would agree to negotiate. The Iranians rejected the idea. As a U.S. diplomat put it: "No one has cracked Khomeini. He hears...
...these statements seem somewhat disingenuous, for instance, in light of Harvard's failure to act decisively to condemn the law students who refused to allow members of the audience to question a representative of the P.L.O. recently. Bok did not condemn Kenyatta, even though the Law School incident came shortly after he had heaped abuse on the members of the Pi Eta Club for their sexist newsletter. The Pi Eta's actions were no doubt despicable--if not a little foolish--but were Kenyatta's any less...
...Salvadoran rebels. This is true, and Haig vehemently refused my proposal. But then he quotes me as saying, "For years I have been waiting for an American to speak words such as these. Tonight I will go home and sleep well." As a supporter of negotiated settlements, I condemn Haig's aggressive attitude, and further, I never told him I would sleep well. On the contrary, Haig's approach would give anybody a nightmare...
...Carl Lewis run faster than Ivan Gregoriovich. Yes, I enjoy witnessing the finest athletes in the world striving to beat one another. And, yes, I can empathize with them when that opportunity is destroyed, because their governments use them as political lever age. And upon first instinct, I too, condemn the politicization of the Olympics...