The executive director of the United States Olympic Committee said today that the Committee was “definitely in opposition to the selection of the Soviet Union or any other country practicing methods contrary to the Olympic ideal, as a site for the 1980 games.”
That statement was made here by Col. F. Donald Miller to a delegation of B’nai B’rith District One, headed by District President Lester A. Macketz, of Woonsocket, R.I. Miller said that the U.S. Olympic Committee “is diametrically opposed to the oppressive measures and actions in the conduct of the World University Games by the Russians.” At the games, held in Moscow last month, the Israeli team was constantly jeered and Soviet Jews rooting for them were harassed and physically abused.
Miller said: “The U.S. Olympic Committee has been and will remain dedicated to the principles that establish the Olympic Games as an instrument to create international amity and good will and will vigorously resist any attempts to impair these ideals and which would make the Olympic movement a vehicle for the extension of political ideologies.”
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