The Guardian of Liberty - Nemzetőr, 1984 (7. évfolyam, 1-6. szám)

1984-09-01 / 5. szám

Olympie Profits to Aid Sports Projects V arious amateur sports projects are to benefit from the huge, profits made by +he committee organising the.. 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Despite the boycott by the USSR and 14 of its allies, these Games, held from July 28 to August 12, had a record attendance of 5,500/300 - about 200,000 more than, that at the Moscow Olympics in 1980. There was also a record number of participating countries: . 140, com­pared with 81 in 1980, when athletes from 50 nations stayed away from Moscow in protest against the. Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December, 1979. According . to sports commentaries in the Press outside the Soviet bloc, many Russian, East European and Cuban athletes bitterly resented being prevented from going to Los Angeles. The USSR's intention to boycott the Games was announced by the Soviet National Olympic Committee on May 8. It was obvious that its „decision" was dictated by the Kremlin, as the Russian sports authorities had already spent heavily on preparations. At a Moscow Press conference on May 14, Märat Gramov, head of the USSR Sports Committee, recalled that 700 Soviet athletes had attended a pre-Olympic meeting in Los Angeles and that the Soviet Union had paid „millions of dollars" on ar­rangements associated with the Games. Twelve of the 14 other boycotting countries took between May 12 and June 26 to announce their decisions not to attend. Only Bulgaria and East Germany quickly followed the Soviet example. The 12 which made later announce­ments were: Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Vietnam, Laos, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Cuba, North Korea, Ethiopia, Southern Yemen and Angola. The sports authorities in Hungary and Poland announced their boycotts after they had paid large sums relating to travel and accommoda­tion in Los Angeles. The Poles said that they had participated in every Olympic Games since 1924 and had been making „all-out prepara­tions" for the 1984 Games. Despite their „diffi­cult economic situation", they had allocated „sizeable amounts" to taking part in Los Angeles. Romania was the only Soviet-bloc country to Darticipate. China, taking part in the Olympics for the first time in 32 years, was spectacularly success­ful at the 1984 Games. Justified pride over this was reflected in an editorial in the China Youth News. It said that over the past hundred years China had fallen behind and been ridi­culed as the „sick man of Eastern Asia". But, it added, the ever-increasing number of Chinese gold medals (the Games were then still in progress) meant that the „descendants of the dragon" could now face the world without shame. Peking Press reports also gave sympathetic coverage of Taiwan's participation in the Games, and quoted Taiwanese sports officials as wishing Peking’s athletes success. Hungary's State rad:o service was the on'y one in the Soviet bloc to praisë the Los Angeles Olympics. It said in an English­­language broadcast: „The most welcome devel­opment about the Olymp'ad is that it has taken place, for it signals that despite tensions in international affairs, there is peace in the world. „It is sincerely hoped that the Olympic ideal will survive and that in four years' time all nations will be able to send athletes to that major sporting event". iipiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiw MIRROR AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED EE HIn AUSTRALIA: ACN, Box 11 PO, EAST­WOOD N.S.W. 2122 EE Ü Ü 2= In GREAT BRITAIN: ACN, UK,1 M1-5 North Street, CHICHESTER Westn Sussex PO 19 1 LB§ H In IRELAND: ACN, The Norbertine Fa­1 = thers, Kilnacrott, BALLYJAMESDUFF, Co.ü = s= CavanS 5E md: ACN, Northern Ireland Sub-Centre,I EHE s= 0O Box No 76, BELFAST BT13 2DX EE In the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:1 M ==ACN, PO Box 1000, EL TORO, CA 92630 EE HiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiniiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiii i 12 SWIMMER DEFECTS Ondrej Krenek, a 20-year-old swim­mer from Czechoslovakia, has request­ed political asylum in the Federal Republic of Germany after competing in an international contest there. He is the fifth Czechoslovak swimmer to defect in West Germany since 1982. Czech Poet Wins Nobel Prize Jaroslav Seifert, an 83-year-old poet, on Oc­tober 11 became the f:rst citizen of Czecho­slovakia to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Swedish Academy, which selects the Prize winners, has said that it chose Seifert for his poetry which, „endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness, provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit of man." Sweden's Ambassador to Czechoslovakia visited Seifert in the Prague hospital where he is being treated for a heart condition. Later, the ambassador reported that the poet was „overjoyed" about receiving the award. A member of the Communist Party in his youth, Seifert resigned from it after visiting the USSR in 1929. He then became a Social Democrat. Seifert was briefly in official favour during the „Prague Spring" of 1968, a period of lib­eralised communism curtailed by the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact forces' invasion of Czechoslo­vakia in August that year. He is a signatory of the Charter 77 human rights manifesto. THE GUARDIAN OF LIBERTY (NEMZETŐR) V Esery—elwtfcortBhmfrMidaieWlAoet»Mo—d|>—e—d AfUde It, Untver—f DedaroSi— cf Humon Right.___________________________________________ Erscheint 2monatlich. Einzelpreis für Deutschland DM 4,— Edited by the Editorial Board Verleger, Herausgeber und Inhaber TIBOR KECSKÊSI TOLLAS Journalist, Schriftsteller, München Ferchenbachstraße 88, D-8000 München 50 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY Verantwortlicher Redakteur (Editor): MIKLÓS VARY Ferchenbachstraße 88, D-8000 München 50 Druck (print): DANUBIA DRUCKEREI GMBH Ferchenbachstraße 88, D-8000 München 50 AFRICA REPRESENTATIVES & SALE CAMEROON: L. T. JOHNSON, Divisional Inspectorate of Education, NKAMBE, North West Province, Republic of CAMEROON. 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For air mail add 25 •/# For atudents 50 “/« discount FREEDOM FLIGHT An officer in the Soviet-controlled Afghan air force, the commander of a transport aircraft, sought political asylum in Pakistan on September 22. The plane landed at Miranshah air base in Paki­stan’s North-West Frontier Province. SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1984

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