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...permit the world one day's peace. The fedayeen are curbed for the moment, but they have more manpower, are better armed and better trained than ever before. The quality of their men is better, they are dedicated and perfectly willing to die if necessary. Those boys in Munich were prepared to kill. But they were also prepared to die." That kind of dedication adds a new dimension to terror that even the astute Israelis may have trouble handling...
...Europe headlines announced the release of the Munich hostages, and in Israel people went to bed thinking that they had been saved. Millions of Americans who watched early-evening TV news programs on Tuesday came away with the impression that the athletes had been rescued. In a world of instantaneous communications, everyone knows the news-even when it is false. Rarely in recent years has a single news event been so misreported to so many people as the murders in Munich...
Charles Bietry, a reporter for Agence France Presse, was the first to send out the correct, tragic news after talking with Georg Kronawitter, the mayor of Munich. A.F.P. moved that report at 9:13 p.m. New York time, allowing the New York Times to be accurate in its first edition (part of the first run of the Washington Post reported the hostages rescued; the Post had earlier arranged to get A.F.P. service, but the teleprinter did not arrive until the next morning). U.S. television networks do not subscribe to A.F.P. During the official press conference, which began at about...
...have only the strength of a great ideal," intoned Avery Brundage last week in Munich at the Olympic Stadium memorial service for the slain Israeli athletes. "I am sure the public will agree that we cannot allow a handful of terrorists to destroy this nucleus of international cooperation and good will." Thus, the second week of the XX Olympiad proceeded under a grim penumbra cast not only by the brutal murders, but by sloppy officiating, errant decisions by Brundage's International Olympic Committee-and by the insensitivity of Brundage himself. In his brief speech at the service, the outgoing...
...been shamed into rowing submission at the XIX Olympied. Harry Parker remembered. He had been there, Livingston. Hobbs. Livingston. They remembered too. They had been a part of the 1968 disgrace. To them the memory of coming in an embarassing sixth behind the East Germans was all too vivid. Munich was their second shot to redeem themselves. Munich was possibly their last shot...