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...this the center, then? An international Woodstock? "The Olympic flame is the only hope for brotherhood, understanding and dialogue," says Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee. What else would he say? "The Olympics are the only times in the history of the world when so many nations come together in one spot in an association of friendship," says Charles Palmer, president of the British Olympic Association. Vested interest. According to Kurthan Fisek, a professor of public management from the University of Ankara, "No single institution in the entire history of mankind has been able to equate itself...
Mary Decker made light work of her 1,500-and 3,000-meter heats, but lost her legal argument that, in fairing to provide women with 5,000- and 10,000-meter opportunities, the Games unfairly discriminate. Said dissenting Court of Appeals Judge Harry Pregerson last week: "The Olympic flame, which should be a symbol of harmony, equality and justice, will burn less brightly over the Los Angeles Olympic Games." But Decker jogged on. She qualified for the team by easily winning the 3,000 and seemed likely to staff the 1,500 as well...
...Olympic flame, which was carried through the Boston area in May, has been stored in a miner's lamp on Beacon Hill. For the start of the Games a relay of former Olympians from the Boston area will carry-it to the Stadium for the torch lighting during the opening ceremonies...
...watching from a bed in front of a Connecticut hospital when the runner paused by his side and let him hold the torch. Even Joey Glenn, a 15-year-old in a Van Halen T shirt who hardly seems the crying type, admitted that the sight of the proud flame made him feel like "crying for America" as he watched from the dry roadside in Collinsville, Texas. Almost as surprising is the excitement: the deaf children in West Virginia who each got to pass the torch, then broke into a flurry of sign language; the thundering chants...
What started as a venturesome symbol, attacked as blatant commercialism by the Soviets when they boycotted the Summer Games, has become a national phenomenon, provoking an outpouring of good feeling for community and country. Flown to the U.S. in miner's lamps from Greece, the Olympic flame is being carried on a serpentine 82-day, 8,700-mile journey through 33 states to the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles. The runners include more than 200 regulars (a team of experienced amateur runners sponsored by A T & T who form the core of the relay) and 3,500 local...