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...diminish the luster of many events (see following story). True, the rivalry will be broader than in the 1980 Olympics, which drew athletes from only 81 nations to Moscow. Attendance at Los Angeles might equal, or even surpass, the high of 122 countries represented at the 1972 Games in Munich???though much depends on whether the black African nations boycott again (they are incensed because Zola Budd, a fleet middle-distance runner and native South African, may be allowed to compete as a British citizen). But, like the Soviet athletes who garnered the superficially staggering total of 197 gold, silver...
...main substantive issue is not Iran, but the definition of a long-term policy toward the Soviet Union. The superpowers are on a collision course. If, to avoid a collision, we should fail to check Soviet power, we might?like Britain and France after Munich???have to resist later anyway, but in disastrous circumstances. However, if in our effort to contain Moscow we should react rashly, we might re-create 1914, when each camp believed that the time to seek a showdown had come because trends would be unfavorable to it later. Neither appeasement nor provocation should be our motto...
...exclusive Riem Riding Academy, and trap and skeet shooting on the elegant Hockbruck course. The man who took home gold that he hardly needed was Neapolitan Hosteler Angelo Scalzone. The impeccable socialite was mobbed by his countrymen and unfashionably tossed into the air. This week the attention of Munich Munich???and the world?will focus on the track and field events. Here the U.S., which was universally conceded supremacy in swimming before the Games began, will face its most severe tests. The biggest single event will be the rematch in the 1,500-meter run between Kansas' erratic, enigmatic...
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