— The mayor of West Berlin and the City Council have agreed to a proposal by the Simon Wiesenthal Documentation Center here to perform an act of moral restitution by renaming the avenue leading to the Berlin Olympics Stadium after Jesse Owens, the Black American Olympic runner who won four gold medals in the 1936 Games. Owens died in 1980.
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