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Incensed at South Africa's hypocrisy -integration abroad, apartheid at home -at least 40 nations announced that they would boycott the Olympics unless the invitation was rescinded. In some cases it was an empty threat: such small countries as Malawi and Upper Volta are not recognized by the I.O.C. and could not compete in Mexico anyway. The clincher came when the Soviet Union threatened to pull out and a number of top U.S. Negro athletes opted to boycott too. That kind of pressure, plus the worldwide reaction to Martin Luther King's assassination, left the I.O.C. with only...
Portugal, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somali Republic, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Republic, United Kingdom, United States, Upper Volta, Uruguay, Venezuela, South Viet Nam, Yugoslavia, Zambia...
...envy of his neighbors. To solve the first, he is channeling 25% of the country's $263 million budget into education (v. only 10% for the army) and setting up 50 technical institutes and training schools. As for such neighbors as Togo, Dahomey, Niger and Upper Volta, he says: "I'm not interested in making the Ivory Coast an oasis of prosperity in the middle of a desert of misery. Sooner or later, my neighbors' difficulties will create trouble for me. And it's the desert that always engulfs the oasis." To help keep the desert...
...incident that sent the church into opposition occurred in the steelmaking town of Volta Redonda, after four university students had borrowed Bishop Waldir Calheiros' station wagon to distribute antigovernment pamphlets. A few hours later, eight tommy-gun-toting soldiers broke into Dom Waldir's home, searched his belongings and threatened to arrest him as a subversive. When a local radio station canceled a Catholic program and read an army-composed editorial against the bishop instead, Dom Waldir drew up and had printed a new list of Brazil's "seven capital sins," which included low salaries, unemployment, hunger...
...took up motorcycle racing as a diversion, then began studying welding so that he could repair his own wrecked bikes. Sculpture being what it is these days, it was just a few twists from the machine shop to an eye-riveting exhibition of welded sculpture at Georgetown's Volta Place Gallery, where Hess sold a dozen pieces opening week at prices ranging from $75 to $1,500. "It's really bailing me out," said the artist. "I seem to be pretty much unemployable...