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...being a pure and timeless island whereon youth can meet untrammeled to test body and spirit in the full glory of individual competition, the Olympics have become one ol the most dramatic and powerful political arenas of the century Palestinian terrorists understood that when in 1972 they crashed into Munich and left eleven Israelis dead. The Olympics so dramatically catch the attention of the world that hey have become an irresistible repository for all kinds of political hopes, benign and malevolent...
...will be competing in a winter playground that has been groomed with the help of $178 million in federal, state and local funds. The money went to build better roads, dormitories, communication systems and, not just incidentally, ski slopes, bobsled runs and skating rinks. Because of the tragedy at Munich in 1972, where eleven Israeli competitors and coaches died in the wake of an attack by Palestinian terrorists, security has been a paramount consideration. That meant building an Olympic Village seven miles from Lake Placid, accessible to vehicles only via a narrow forest road and surrounded by double chain-link...
...fear of the Soviet Union, Carter was "either deceitful or a fool." Said the former California Governor, alluding to the British appeasement of Hitler: "We're seeing the same kind of atmosphere that we saw when Mr. Chamberlain was tapping his cane on the cobblestones of Munich...
That sentiment about the Olympics has not always held true. In Berlin in 1936, Hitler turned the Games into a goose-stepping showcase of Nazi propaganada. World Wars I and II snuffed out the 1916, 1940 and 1944 Olympiads. The 1972 Munich Games were shattered by an Arab terrorist attack on the Israeli team that left eleven Israeli athletes dead. Past Games have also been boycotted: in 1956, for example, Spain, Switzerland and The Netherlands withdrew from the Melbourne Olympics as a protest of the Soviet invasion of Hungary. And in 1976, 28 African nations abandoned the Montreal Games...
Fanaticism stained the decade as vividly as greed did. The U.S. cooled after its own violent '60s. The rest of the world suffered a long siege: 17 died in the Palestinian terrorists' attack at the Olympic Village in Munich in 1972. Twenty-five died when terrorists opened fire in the Tel Aviv airport the same year. The Baader-Meinhof gang in Germany and the Red Brigades in Italy turned life for European executives into a routine of paranoid precautions. Former Premier Aldo Moro was kidnaped and executed. With grotesque ingenuity, Italian terrorists practiced "kneecapping"-blowing holes in their...