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...Canada, stayed at home to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in a boycott promulgated by Washington. Sixteen other nations registered their disapproval by displaying the Olympic flag rather than their national colors during the opening ceremonies, which were presided over by Communist Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev and Lord Killanin of Ireland, who retires after the games as president of the International Olympic Committee...
...I.O.C. also voted last week to install Spain's Juan Antonio Samaranch as its president when the eight-year term of Ireland's beleaguered Lord Killanin is extinguished along with the Moscow flame on Aug. 3. A former boxer who now prefers to swing at golf balls, Samaranch, 60, will resign this fall as his country's Ambassador to the Soviet Union to devote full time to the nonpaying position. Like most of his I.O.C. colleagues, the diplomat takes a dun view of the American-led boycott, but insists that he is "totally committed" to having...
...Dublin last week a defiant Lord Killanin, president of the I.O.C., played two new cards that further confused the boycott picture. Killanin unveiled a $1 million "Olympic solidarity" fund created to assist national committees that are short of their usual government grants. (Killanin said the fund was originally for needy Third World nations but will now accommodate others.) He also indicated for the first time that the I.O.C. may per mit athletes from boycotting countries to compete as individuals...
...Lord Killanin hinted last week that had more nations tried harder to apply other forms of pressure on the Soviets, notably trade sanctions, the I.O.C. might have taken a different line on the Moscow Games. "But the cheapest and easiest way to bring pressure to bear was to ask sportsmen to make the sacrifice," he scolded. "Athletes are defenseless against pressures of one sort or another. Governments must find solutions in other arenas outside that of the Olympic stadium...
...Lord Killanin, International Olympic Committee president, seeking talks with Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev to head off a Moscow boycott: "I can't make peace, but I can't make the situation any worse...