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Most of the midday voters at polling station 202 in the Warsaw industrial suburb of Ursus dutifully accepted the printed ballots listing the official slate of candidates and dropped them into the large white-and-red box without a moment's hesitation. But one elderly man insisted on his right to consider alternative choices, noting that "nobody buys a cat in a bag." As he stepped into the booth conspicuously provided for that purpose, amused polling officials heard him sarcastically exclaim as he marked his ballot, "What a surprise! They even provide pencils to cross out these names...
...Warsaw, thousands of leaflets urging voters not to "collaborate" in the election fluttered from buildings or were posted in stairwells and elevators...
...Cuba and North Korea, not unexpectedly, last week joined the boycott. But Rumania broke ranks with the Warsaw Pact and said that it would send its athletes to Los Angeles...
...Flight 007 with a loss of 269 lives, and who defended the Soviet action four days later in Pravda; "in the line of duty," the customary phrase for a military officer; in East Germany, where he had just been assigned as a representative of the Soviet marshal commanding the Warsaw Pact forces, an apparent demotion that fueled speculation about a possible purge of those involved in the K.A.L. incident...
That left Rumania as Moscow's only Warsaw Pact ally still wavering. President Nicolae Ceauşescu was abroad when the boycott was announced and has yet to voice an opinion on the subject. It was still possible that some other nations economically or politically dominated by the Soviet Union could decide to join the pullout; Cuba is one such possibility. Even so, it seemed a fair bet that more nations will be sending Olympic teams to Los Angeles than the 81 that participated in Moscow's 1980 Games, which were boycotted by the U.S. and more than...