U.S. Olympians bow to Carter
In his speech to the newspaper editors, Carter escalated his campaign to win a diplomatic victory on the home front over an unlikely foe: the American athletes who still wanted to go to the Olympic Games in Moscow this summer. The President said that a decision by the U.S. Olympic Committee to send a team would harm American interests by seeming to condone the Soviets' invasion of Afghanistan. Said Carter: "If legal actions are necessary to enforce the decision not to send a team to Moscow, I will take them." No need. Meeting in Colorado Springs,...
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