Olympic Wave Swelling

The idea that it is improper to hold the Olympic Games in Moscow has become a movement. Some of its recent manifestations were recounted by an editorial, “Olympic Volcano,” in NR’s last issue. Formal proposals have been introduced in Congress calling for a transfer of the Games from Moscow. More and more Americans are convinced that the Games in Moscow should be boycotted even if that means no Games in 1980.

The movement is not confined to the United States. In the past few months, partly in reaction against the Soviet Show Trials, the issue has become a subject of public debate in a number of West European and Latin American countries (and perhaps also in some Third World countries, though I don’t have much information about that).

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The idea that it is improper to hold the Olympic Games in Moscow has become a movement. Some of its recent manifestations were recounted by an editorial, “Olympic Volcano,” in NR’s last issue. Formal proposals have been introduced in Congress calling for a transfer of the Games from Moscow. More and more Americans are convinced that the Games in Moscow should be boycotted even if that means no Games in 1980.

The movement is not confined to the United States. In the past few months, partly in reaction against the Soviet Show Trials, the issue has become a subject of public debate in a number of West European and Latin American countries (and perhaps also in some Third World countries, though I don’t have much information about that).