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Although the indigenous population the area is only 7 million (including 16,000 ski instructors), some 40 million vacationers have trooped through the mountains each year since 1980. An additional 60 million day trippers from such nearby cities as Munich, Salzburg and Milan have motored through the passes and hiked through the high pasturelands annually. The Alps, once an almost insurmountable barrier between north and south, are now crossed by some 50 airlines, seven rail services and 30 major highways...
When Father Leonardo Boff completed his doctoral dissertation at the University of Munich 14 years ago, German Theologian Joseph Ratzinger steered it to a publisher. Matters have become more problematic since then. Boff, 45, is now Brazil's leading exponent of "liberation theology," a controversial movement that blends elements of Marxism with Christianity. Ratzinger is a Cardinal, and Pope John Paul's most powerful theological watchdog at the Vatican...
...Contributor John Skow, who had covered the tragic 1972 Olympics in Munich, comparisons were inescapable: "Before the massacre of the Israeli athletes, journalists freely roamed the athletes' quarters. No such freedom prevailed in Los Angeles. But despite the restrictions, security officials were unfailingly courteous...
...these former athletes, the Olympics afford a return to public attention. For ABC reporters, the spotlight can make or break careers. Anchor Jim McKay, 62, who became the voice of the Olympics at Munich in 1972, still appears earnest and unflappable, but as at Sarajevo last winter, he seems a bit weary. A typical snatch of McKay's sometimes repetitive prose: "This could be a historic night in the history of men's gymnastics." Among his potential successors, Jim Lampley comes across as better informed and shrewder than he was at Sarajevo, but the most natural and adroit...
Haunted by the memory of the Munich Games in 1972, when members of the Palestinian Black September Movement invaded the Olympic Village and killed eleven Israeli athletes, the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee (L.A.O.O.C.) has taken special measures to protect the teams' living quarters. At two of the three Olympic Villages-on the campuses of the University of Southern California and the University of California at Los Angeles - the committee has erected three concentric rings of eight-foot-high mesh fence. The middle one is wired with intrusion-detection devices, installed by the Pentagon, that sends out an alarm...