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...unpack-pack-up look at the Olympic Village. There, late Saturday afternoon, a group of New Zealanders, clad in their black-blazered parade uniforms, stood with their arms around several disconsolate Kenyans, still wearing the red warmup suits they had on when they learned of their government's "withdraw immediately" decision that morning. By week's end 25 countries represented by 697 athletes were out of the Games. Gone with them were such potential gold-medal winners as Track Stars Mike Boit of Kenya, Miruts Yifter of Ethiopia and John Akii-Bua of Uganda. Gone...
...getting as much attention throughout the world last week as the feats of Nadia Comaneci. "Nations boycotting: 25." That grim statistic raised severe doubts about the future of the Games themselves. There was widespread resentment against Canada for kowtowing to Peking and thereby forcing 42 athletes from Taiwan to withdraw (TIME, July 26). There was both consternation and anger over an African walkout directed against New Zealand because it sent a rugby team to South Africa...
Nowhere was the disappointment greater than in Africa, where popular sentiment was strongly opposed to the political decision to withdraw the teams. A number of African athletes telephoned home to say they were considering forfeiting their citizenships and settling in the U.S. "I'm fed up with black politics," said a member of one team. "At the next Olympics I hope to be competing as an American." Added a coach: "If my boys wanted to play politics, they would run for Parliament. To wreck their sporting careers for petty political points is not only unfair-it is criminal." Lamented...
...Thursday, Ford began three hours of talks over two days with visiting West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, discussing NATO's southern flank, Communism in Western Europe and the world economic situation. Schmidt urged the President to resist pressures to withdraw U.S. troops from Europe. On Friday Ford went to Baltimore to visit Schmidt aboard the square-rigged West German ship Gorch Fock...
...Chodrow, assistant professor of Physics at Northern Michigan University, also announced that students in the course will have until 4 p.m. today to withdraw from S-1. The registrar's office extended the deadline from last Friday to accomodate students who do not want to continue the course now that it is no longer on a self-paced basis...