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It is difficult for me to believe that Jesse Jackson or anyone would want to boycott the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988. The absence of our athletes at the 1980 Moscow Olympics certainly has not hampered Soviet efforts in Afghanistan.
As a 1984 Olympic Games finalist in track and field, I find Jesse Jackson's threat to call for a U.S. boycott in 1988 because of human rights violations in South Korea to be the ultimate hypocrisy. Haven't politicians learned that boycotts do not change the governmental policies of...
They weren't. Most of the shots on Firing Line were blanks. The Somber Seven were all painfully earnest, briefing-book glib and unfailingly polite. But the few issue differences that emerged (primarily on trade and oil-import fees) were introduced almost apologetically with phrases like "with all due respect...
Jesse Jackson meted out few one-liners and aimed none at himself. "It took me too long," he noted with a touch of seriousness, "to be taken seriously." He rejected outright any leveling metaphor -- especially dwarfs. "I'm Rudolph," he said. "These are the six reindeer." Then he spun a...
Alas, the Rev. Leon Sullivan, who formulated a set of antiapartheid guidelines that would justify U.S. companies' remaining in South Africa, has submitted to the pressures of the Randall Robinsons, Jesse Jacksons and Andrew Youngs of this world. As a dedicated and active supporter of the principles Sullivan set up...