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Privately, some Canadian officials said they were "extremely upset" that the story of the escape had been broken by Jean Pelletier, a Washington correspondent for Montreal's La Presse and son of Canada's ambassador to France. Like a number of newsmen, including correspondents and editors of TIME, Pelletier had long been aware that the six had been hidden in Tehran and had kept the secret. When Pelletier learned that the Americans were out of Tehran, he felt the news would quickly become public, and his newspaper decided to break the story. This destroyed a Canada...
...thawing, and the U.S.S.R. athletes were popular with reporters and fellow competitors. The vaunted Austrian men skiers spent much of their time feuding among themselves over ski endorsements, and were dealt a double blow when Switzerland's Roger Staub captured the giant slalom and France's Jean Vuarnet placed first in the downhill...
...third and final installment, Ms. Dugger reported that the present Director, Mr. Gordon, "...doubts the HIID would advise the Central African Empire...under the present government." Surely, he must have meant to refer to the government of former Emperor Jean-Badel Bokassa, which was overturned in September 1979, more than five months ago. The nation is now once again the Central African Republic, headed by President David Dacko, who is generally judged to be a benevolent leader. Former Emperor Bokassa is in exile in the Ivory Coast...
...Sports Jean-Pierre Soisson: "The Olympics are a sporting event, not a political affair." That, of course, is not true. The Olympics long ago became politicized, with authoritarian societies like Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sparing no effort to train their athletes-all in the hopes of piling up gold medals as proof of the superiority of their political systems...
...increase their sales to the Soviets, but they would not cancel any existing contracts. The other big exporter, Argentina, refused to cooperate at all with Washington. The West Europeans are not selling grain to the Soviets, but refused to curb their sales of high technology. Said French Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet: "We have no intention of modifying our commercial relations with the U.S.S.R." Added a German Foreign Ministry official with a keen sense of national 'priorities: "Which is more important to the West as a whole?West Berlin or Kabul...