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PARIS: The buck stops with Juan Antonio Samaranch. The International Olympic Committee president is answerable to no one, and that may make it hard for him to keep his job. "He's a part of the whole rotten system," says TIME Paris bureau chief Tom Sancton. "He may not have personally accepted bribes, but he either turned a blind eye or else failed to properly oversee Olympic decision-making...
...Samaranch was fighting for his future Monday, even after the IOC suspended six members for corruption. "His credibility has been damaged to the extent that it will be questioned whether he can be relied on to reform a body that has malfunctioned so badly on his watch," says Sancton. Allegations of corruption in the decision to award the 2002 Winter Games to Salt Lake City have snowballed into a wide-ranging probe of recent IOC decisions. With billions of dollars at stake in the competition to host the games, the Olympic dictum that participating is more important than winning...
...TIME 100 list of Builders and Titans is a strong reminder that successful businesses don't just happen, they are made." DON SANCTON Beaconsfield...
...carefully calibrated French reaction is significant, notes TIME Paris bureau chief Thomas Sancton. "What may be little known is that President Clinton and French president Chirac have consulted regularly and at length on the phone as the Iraqi crisis has unfolded in the past few months." As a result of these close consultations, the two countries have been able to play a good-cop, bad-cop role with Saddam that's allowed the French to give "friendly advice" to Saddam -- backed by the U.S. military. That kind of cooperation has averted strikes in the past. While the French are espousing...
...second French officer exposed for passing secrets to the Serbs -- in April Major Herve Gourmelon was found to have tipped off Bosnian Serbs about planned NATO action. "The Pentagon has had a really jaundiced view of the French for a long time," says TIME Paris bureau chief Tom Sancton. The U.S. has in the past flatly rejected French demands for control of NATO's Southern Command, which has put the process of France's integration into NATO on hold. "Now," says Sanction, "that process will go into the deep freeze...