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THE BATTALION Page 9
THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1980
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Boycott support gaining in world
United Press International
President Carter's call for a
joycott of the summer Olympic
James in Moscow — condemned by
iuropean Olympic committees — is
licking up support from other fore
governments and political par-
Britain, China, Australia and New
jealand gave their conditional back-
Ig Tuesday to Carter’s proposal for
lie boycott unless Soviet troops
Withdraw from Afghanistan by Feb.
f).
i But France formally accepted the
invitation Tuesday to participate in
V the games.
1 British Prime Minister Margaret
■hatcher told the House of Corn-
Ions she was asking the British
Olympic Association to urge the In
ternational Olympic Committee to
move the summer Olympics from
Moscow.
“We have in fact offered to make
available some of the sites in this
country that we have for some
events,’’ she said.
No European Olympic committee
has come out in favor of the proposed
walkout.
In Peking, China’s National
Olympic Committee — unlike its
European counterparts — said it will
go along with a boycott if the major
ity of Olympic countries want it.
“China will take the same attitude
as the majority of the national Olym
pic committees of all countries, ’’ the
committee said.
Australian Prime Minister Mal
colm Fraser said he supported Car
ter’s plan and wrote to the Australian
Olympic Committee asking it to con
sider a boycott of the Moscow event.
In Tokyo Japan’s ruling Liberal-
Democratic Party also called for a
boycott of the Moscow Games.
Canada and Israel both view Car
ter’s proposal with sympathy and
Egypt has already declared its intent
to boycott the games.
In Washington the State Depart
ment strongly reaffirmed the Feb.
20 deadline for deciding on U. S. par
ticipation in the Olympics and re
jected any extension of that deadline
— unless the Soviets leave Afghanis
tan by that day.
“What happens on that day is that
on Feb. 20 we cease to participate in
the Olympics in Moscow,’’ said
spokesman Hodding Carter speak
ing on behalf of both the State De
partment and the White House.
The president Sunday urged the
Olympic site be switched but the
IOC has made clear that it is both
legally and technically impossible to
do so.
“They will be held in Moscow or
nowhere,” a spokesman said.
French Olympic Committee Pres
ident Claude Collard said France
accepted the invitation because “it
seemed to us the opportunity to im
mediately make our position known
and to confirm French athletes will
participate in the Moscow games.”
The reaction of the Soviet Union
and Eastern European countries has
been hostile.
In Moscow Tass accused Carter of
holding athletes and the Olympic
movement hostage and Soviet
Olympic officials said Carter’s com
ments about a boycott were “politic
al zig-zagging and an absolute con
tradiction of the Olympic spirit.’’
In Paris seven Soviet exiles ex
pressed support for Carter’s propos
als, saying if the games take place in
Moscow it would be like Hitler’s ex
ploitation of the 1936 Berlin games.
Carter picked up some support at
home. The 525,000-member Amer
ican Federation of Teachers gave its
backing with union President Albert
Shanker also comparing the Moscow
games to the 1936 games in Nazi
Germany.
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ito’s condition improving;
eports say he feels well
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L BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — The
ndition of Yugoslav President
Bosip Broz Tito is improving, an offi-
ial medical bulletin reported,
natet “President Tito spent last night
lenoa eacefully and is feeling well. He has
leOli radually begun to leave his bed,”
iontoii je bulletin said.
used Government officials said private-
teai i the report issued by the “medical
Imncil” attending Tito at the mod-
J.S. accused
f ‘buzzing’
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IjMOSCOW — A Soviet shipping
licial charged Wednesday that
|S. Air Force planes have begun
Irovocative” buzzing of Soviet mer-
ant ships, flying as close as 25
ndenl
ern clinic in the northern city of
Ljubljana meant the iron-willed
statesman, whose leg was amputated
Sunday, has been assisted out of bed
for short periods.
These officials noted such move
ment is medically vital to prevent
such post-operative complications as
pleurisy or pneumonia caused by im
mobility.
An American doctor commented,
“The important thing is to get him up
as soon as possible. This is sound
medical practice even at Tito’s age.”
“As long as there are no complica
tions, it is on the third day that a
patient should leave the bed at least
for a time.”
Medical bulletins issued Monday
and Tuesday spoke of gradual recov
ery and normal pulse and blood
pressure. They also said Tito was
feeling well.
As Yugoslavia’s 22 million people
closely follow Tito’s apparent recov
ery, the men he personally desig
nated to succeed him are preparing
for the day they will have to run the
country without “the old man, ” as he
is affectionately called.
Western diplomats said Wednes
day the machinery of collective
leadership laid down by Tito went
into motion even before the amputa
tion.
Tito decreed as far back as 1971
how the nation should be run if he
were to die or be incapacitated.
The one way of keeping Yugosla
via united, he decided, was to have a
collective leadership split into two
parts — one committee running the
Communist Party and another run
ning the state itself.
“It is clear that these committees
have been meeting almost continual
ly over the past few days, ” one West
ern diplomat said. “It was certainly
the collective leadership which de
cided among other things the armed
forces should be placed in a state of
extra vigilance.”
rds to some vessels, the Tass news
mpaii r . , ’
bey reported.
I tass said Soviet ship captains in
oni rious parts of the Pacific and In-
. i in oceans radioed complaints ab-
*3 t buzzings.
, i Tn the Sea of Japan an American
jam flew 25 meters (82 feet) from
1 l ship" Tass quoted a Captain Kle-
" " Jovof the Soviet merchant ship Yas-
morsk.
In the Korea strait American
p ots provocatively buzzed the ship
'f^§an hour.”
Alexander Kashura, deputy head
the Soviet Far Eastern Shipping
told Tass, “The buzzing of
viet ships by American military
ines is obviously pre-planned,
said it was a “clear violation” of
emational regulations on the safe-
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W“J “Practice shows that the country’s
)itary planes intensify such pro-
:ative actions whenever the U.S.
emment creates a conflict situa-
h in some part of the world.”
Jt said, buzzings occurred fre-
Inewjnently during the Vietnam War and
e M Pj*§ring China’s invasion of Vietnam
yearsijst year.
It said now that the United States
irteJ?' s begun an economic blockade of
sek' 1 m and has taken anti-Soviet mea-
his sis* res over the Afghan crisis “the pro-
amf® cative actions of the U.S. Air
iree in the oceans reached a
costi featening scope. ”
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