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...Angeles Games will be the fifth in a row marred by politics. The unhappy sequence began with riots outside and a black-power salute by U.S. athletes inside the 1968 Games in Mexico City and the massacre of Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Games in Munich. It continued in 1976 with the boycott at the Olympiad in Montreal by black African nations that had unsuccessfully tried to get New Zealand expelled because one of its rugby teams had toured South Africa (which was barred from the Olympics after the 1960 Games because of its apartheid policies...
...games. And, if we remember a little further back, we recall that in 1976, 37 Black African nations did not send athletes to Montreal because the International Olympic Committee extended an invitation to New Zealand, which had allowed its rugby team to tour South Africa. In 1972 in Munich, 11 Israeli athletes were killed by terrorists. In 1968 America was shocked to see the Games, or rather the awards platform, used by U.S. runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who stretched their black-leather-gloved hands skyward in a Black Power salute, to call attention to the racial discrimination...
...Baron de Coubertin's torch once and for all. Such arguments strike an increasingly responsive chord, indeed, the last Games to be left unscathed by the non-athletic tug of war between rival states took place in 1968. Since then, we've seen the massacre of 11 Israelis in Munich, the African boycott of Montreal, the U.S. no-show in Moscow, and now, the big nyet from Chernenko and Co. Nor do prospects for the future look good. The 1988 Games were awarded to South Korea, thereby presenting Big Brother to the North with an ideal opportunity to wreak havoc...
Third movement: Scherzo. Philadelphia, 1984; the Curtis Institute. Director John de Lancie has worked hard to persuade Celibidache, now 71, to come to the U.S. The elusive conductor still leads an eclectic existence: he lives in Paris, lectures on musical phenomenology at Mainz University and conducts the Munich Philharmonic. The Philharmonic, which he will bring to the U.S. next year, grants him between ten and 18 rehearsals for each program; U.S. orchestras generally allow four. He is no easier on the young American students than he is on professional musicians. Through 17 rehearsals he painstakingly explores every bar without...
...Chernenko the potentially alarming sobriquet "the man who never forgets." Stored in his capacious memory are countless files, names, incidents, favors given and favors received. In the view of many Soviet analysts, he is far from a fool. As Alexander Rahr, a Soviet-born expert at Radio Liberty in Munich, puts it, "He is a quiet Siberian, a man who can be quite cunning, a man who knows what power is." But he is also said to have a common touch in dealing with subordinates. As a Soviet journalist who has seen him on numerous occasions observed, "He treats unimportant...