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...Queen Elizabeth II formally opened the ceremonies and the gas-fired torch flared into life at trackside in Montreal's ribbed, concrete Olympic Stadium last week, the XXI Olympiad had already produced one record. For the first time since the modern Games began in 1896, a host country had imposed its own foreign policy on the event. The result was some indecorous sports brinkmanship that forced the angry withdrawal of a clearly ill-treated team from the island Republic of China, further strained U.S.-Canadian relations and left much of the remaining world bothered about what a West German...
When the heralds fanned out through ancient Greece to announce the forthcoming Games at Olympia (see BOOKS), they carried with them the proclamation of a sacred truce that extended for at least a month before and after the Olympics. Since the Games of the XXI Olympiad in Montreal have already become an arena of international acrimony second only to that other supposed citadel of world harmony, the United Nations, the time is ripe for a modern equivalent, however profane, of the sacred truce...
After three years of administrative hassles, labor troubles and ballooning costs, construction of the sprawling facilities for the games of the XXI Olympiad in Canada neared completion last week. The sun came out over Montreal following two weeks of cold and damp weather, allowing workmen to lay down the red tartan artificial surface in the stadium's eight-lane track. That took care of the last major project, though many odds and ends remain to be tied up before the lighting of the Olympic torch opens the 16 days of games on July...
SEPT. 5, 1972. Black September terrorists kill eleven Israeli athletes at Munich XX Olympiad...
...last day, when Brandt held a one-hour meeting with Fellow Socialist Francois Mitterrand, Pompidou's arch rival in the current election campaign. After all, had not Pompidou seen fit to meet with Rainer Barzel, Brandt's political opponent, during his visit to the Munich Olympiad? Besides, as one Brandt aide volunteered: "We don't really believe that Mitterrand's coalition will beat the Gaullists, but in France anything can happen...