Word: drapeau
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Congratulations to Olympics Organizer Peter Ueberroth for his sound management ideas [Oct. 17]. It is too bad Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau did not have such creative talent when he was host to the 1976 Olympics. I, my children and even my grandchildren will be paying for those Games for years to come...
What Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau envisioned as "modest Games," budgeted for $200 million, turned out to cost about $1.5 billion and left behind a deficit of $1 billion. Moscow spent $9 billion. Emboldened by its position as the only suitor, the Los Angeles committee proposed to cut a revolutionary deal with the I.O.C. The citizens of Los Angeles have amended the city charter to make sure taxpayers could not be charged for the Games. So the I.O.C. would just have to waive its fundamental rule of awarding the franchise to a city and instead hand it over to a board...