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When I saw the corroded torch being removed from the arm of the Statue of Liberty, I felt that nature might be telling us what our politicians refuse to admit, that the deterioration of the great lady symbolizes the erosion that has taken place in our immigration policy [NATION, July 2]. Perhaps it would be in the best interest of America if we halted all immigration for two years, so our borders could be protected and our laws reconstructed, just as the torch is being rebuilt...
...cops in Harlem, who worked out in cordovan shoes on the F.D.R. Drive because his father was a cobbler and cordovans last? Does one watch the Olympics to see a spectacle of individuals? A festival of nerve? Perhaps something collective as well. Something. America bursts into song at the torch relay, and 7 million tickets go on sale...
...feel good about themselves, they feel awful about themselves. America becomes Amerika, evil in the world, or else an overgrown incompetent. But perhaps Americans have developed a more mature appreciation of themselves. They exhibited last week something of the sweet, intense idealism that they have demonstrated as the Olympic torch has made its way across the U.S. to Los Angeles, and some of the mellowed fervor that they felt on Memorial Day when an Unknown from the Viet Nam War was installed at Arlington National Cemetery. Patriotism seemed finally to transcend politics: the flag wavers last week were Mondale Democrats...
...visited the International Games for the Disabled. He watched as more than 1,700 participants from 45 nations paraded past, many in wheelchairs, others on crutches. Among them were delegations from Poland, Hungary and East Germany, all countries that are boycotting the Summer Games. Reagan passed a flaming Olympic torch to Swimmer Jan Wilson, 28, an amputee from Winston-Salem, N.C., and said, "You are proving that a disability doesn't have to stand in the way of a full and active life...
...Olympic flame, which was carried through the Boston area in May, has been stored in a miner's lamp on Beacon Hill. For the start of the Games a relay of former Olympians from the Boston area will carry-it to the Stadium for the torch lighting during the opening ceremonies...