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...global wrath against the Canadian government is certain," wrote the Frankfurter Allgemeine. "In a confrontation between sports and politics, sports proved to be powerless." "Politics should not be an issue any more than religion," said Edward W. ("Moose") Krause, athletic director at Notre Dame. "This just makes me sick." Lord Killanin, head of the International Olympic Committee, was sick too. "Government interference is the most serious problem we face," he declared. "We're scarred, and I, as president, have had my eye blackened...
...African boycott has placed the Games at the mercy of political blackmailers. The threat of some future withdrawal from the Olympics by a bloc of nations puts great pressure on the IOC-and now also on the host government-to exclude the object of the boycotters' wrath, especially if it is only one small country. The Montreal walkout in protest against New Zealand was, to say the least, highly selective, totally symbolic. For one thing, it was aimed at the presence in South Africa of a racially integrated New Zealand team playing a non-Olympic sport. For another...
...during a takeoff from Nairobi; then the following month, after coming across some old British colonial maps, Amin claimed that huge chunks of Kenya actually belonged to Uganda. In return for Kenyan help, the Israelis promised to cripple Amin's Soviet-equipped air force. To spare Nairobi the wrath of its neighbors, Israeli officials have stressed that they "forced themselves" on Nairobi Airport. For the same reason, the Kenyans have officially condemned the Israeli raid...
...side of sanity was Judge Nathaniel Saltonstall (A.B. 1659), who left the bench rather than be a party to taking innocent blood. And the minister Joshua Moodey (A.B. 1653) helped several of the accused to escape, thereby incurring public wrath. Thomas Brattle (A.B. 1676) attacked the judges' methods in a lengthy and influential letter, which was circulated in copies...
...books of fiction that have slowly earned her a reputation as one of the world's most skillful writers. Stead is a connoisseur of the seven deadly sins. She possesses a special genius for decorating the interior of a character's mind, no matter how pinched by wrath, avarice, sloth, pride, lust, envy or greed. Her masterpiece is The Man Who Loved Children (1940), the story of the unhappiest family dwelling in literature since the House of Atreus...