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Soviet Union withdraws
as politics invade Olympics
By Doug Vaughan
Editor in Chief
The United States is hosting the 1984
Olympics, but will anyone be there to compete?
One score is for sure: U.S.-l, Soviet Union-1.
Call it getting even or whatever you want, the
Soviets have evened the score, as once again
politics have entered the Olympic Games.
The U.S.S.R. announced last Tuesday that
it has withdrawn from the Los Angeles Games
because of inefficient security and “an anti-
Soviet hysteria” that it claimed was being
drummed up in our homeland.
In 1980, it was the U.S.A, who bowed out
due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The
score is tied now.
To me, the Olympics seem more a competi
tion between the greatest athletes in the world
rather than a time to show political maneuvers.
With these boycotts, there are no true Olympics
being held.
What is being flirted with is the demise of
the Olympic Games. No longer do we have the
competition between world-class athletes, but
more of a competition between the nations
from which the athletes are from.
William Simon, committee chairman of
the U.S. Olympic Committee, said at a commit
tee meeting, “Politics have been so deeply in
grained in the Olympics for so long. We have
not been clean; if this continues, it will kill the
Olympics.”
Some say nonsense, but the Soviets are
playing with the idea of having their own games
for Eastern Bloc countries. It might be the best
thing for their athletes, who have trained so
hard, since they will not compete in the Olym
pics, but for the future of the Olympic Games
it’s a knife in the back.
There still is hope, though. A June 2
deadline lies between the Soviets’ boycott and
the confirmation date for participation in the
Olympics. But with talks of Eastern Bloc
Games, the thought of the true Olympics seems
unforseeable.
The Americans claimed to make an at
tempt to convince the Soviets, but the response
was pessimistic. As one senior White House of
ficial said, “We are not going to beg them.”
The Soviet boycott seemed almost a
natural way for them to get back at the U.S. for
the 1980 boycott, in fact, there were plans for
Eastern Bloc Games surfacing for months.
Romania is the only Eastern Bloc country
which is expected to compete in the Games.
It should have been learned by the 1980
U.S. boycott what a withdrawal from the
Olympics would do. The American athletes ex
pressed their distress after the withdrawal and
certainly not a lot was gained by the boycott.
Yet, after the 1980 Games the denouncing
of the Olympics in Los Angeles had started.
Soviet newspapers have denounced the com
mercialism of the Los Angeles Games.
Just recently, the talks about the Games
have gotten even harsher. Reports centered in
on the danger that the Soviet athletes would
face. Rumors surfaced about the discrimination
they would face, and they even went as deep as
to say that U.S. groups planned to kill Soviet
participants.
If this is true, I wouldn’t come either. But I
highly doubt it is. U.S. officials called the deci
sion of the Soviets to withdraw a “blantant
political action,” upon which there was no real
justification, according to a May article in the
Oregonian.
Still the Soviets appear that they will not
reconsider. The attempts the U.S. has made are
considered legit, but that is left for our discre
tion.
Whether the Soviets participate in the
Olympics or not, politics have once again got
ten entangled within the Olympic Games. With
it, the world has taken one more step toward
the demise of the one event for all athletes to
compete internationally.
The end of the Olympic Games would only
solve one problem, how to get the torch across
the ocean without dispersing the flame.
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Open primaries needed
By Steve Lundgren
Of The Print
Tom Mix always wore a white hat in the days of hero
westerns. And Brian Donlevy wore a black one. Dirty Harry
avenges while those he kills are murderers. In the movies there
is only good and evil. Anyone who just happens to be on the
set without killing somebody is an extra.
Today, as with every primary election day since I was
able to vote, I feel like an extra. Oregon’s system of closed
primaries is at fault. With this state’s system, an individual
must be registered as either a Republican or as a Democrat in
order to vote for partisan candidates. If one is registered as an
independent as I am, he may vote only for issues, judges,
mayors and the like. But when it comes to electing our poten
tial legislators and executives, an independent is an extra
without a valid opinion.:
By definition we are a democratic union in which each in
dividual’s opinion counts. Of course, there are bound to be
flaws in such a system, but some are easily remedied. Many
states do have open primaries where everyone is entitled to
vote for their favorite candidate. Yet in Oregon a large group
of individuals are partially denied their right to vote. It is time
that this state liberalized its election process and adopted the
open primary.
Seatbelts make difference
By Heather Wright
Of The Print
It only takes a few seconds. Some people say they just
don’t have time. Even if it’s a matter of life and death? Seat
belts. They do make a difference.
I was one of those people who just did not have time to
buckle my seat belt, until last Thursday—I was involved in an
automobile accident. I wasn’t wearing my seat belt. I only
suffered very minor aches and pains, hut if I would have
spent a few seconds buckling up, I wouldn’t have had to suf
fer at all.
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia ruled that all cars sold in the United States after
September 1, 1983, must have passive-restraint safety
systems.
Only 11 percent of the drivers in the United States wear
their seat belts. Approximately 14,000 to 18,000 lives could be
saved each year if people would take the time to buckle up.
Think about it. You can save your own life. Next time
you get in your car, take those few seconds to buckle up.
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