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...sunshine, Mr. Brundage? In Munich, the Yugoslav water-polo team lost a close contest to the Soviet Union. Displeased by defeat, the Yugoslav sportsmen spat on the Cuban referee and beat the daylights out of his bewildered brother. Pakistan, perennial power in field hockey, was upset in the Olympic final by West Germany, 1-0. Pakistani fans nearly mobbed the referees, the players ridiculed the awards ceremony and roughed up a doctor at the doping tests, and eleven members of the team were forever banned from Olympic competition. Before the Games began, Black African nations, threatening a boycott, browbeat...
That it was. Judges from Liberia and Malaysia had picked Jones as the victor while a Yugoslav had Tregubov winning. The Dutch and Nigerian officials scored the fight a draw; but preferences must be registered under Olympic rules, and both inexplicably preferred Tregubov, purportedly because of his "aggressiveness...
...play, in fact, it is not unusual for a grand master to faint dead away, or lose 15 Ibs. or more during a tournament. Under stress, the late Latvian grand master Aron Nimzovich used to stand on his head between moves to keep the vital juices flowing. The Yugoslav chess team travels with a portable sauna and a trainer who leads them in daily calisthenics. In the 24-game grind of a world title match, says former World Champion Tigran Petrosian, "chess may start out as an art or science, but in the end it is an athletic event...
...Croatian republic's capital. Although that trial has now been postponed until August, a second trial, involving seven other youths, began last week. Both groups are charged with instigating last year's strike by 30,000 students at Zagreb University, and plotting to separate Croatia from the Yugoslav federation by force...
...windfall for the prosecution; it gave credence to Belgrade's repeated accusation that Croat "chauvinists" at home are linked with Croat extremists in exile. In fact, the timing of the incident was so convenient for the prosecution that it prompted speculation-so far unconfirmed -that the Yugoslav secret police, who have heavily infiltrated the Ustaše, may have lured the invaders into staging the raid. But the more serious question was whether the attack was a reckless, one-shot adventure or whether it marked the start of a new, concerted campaign of Ustaše terrorism within Yugoslavia...