European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars William August 1977 Moscow May 16 Boycott olympics 1 of f the wag in London Idu How Lac Brit ish and the French could have solved Pic or concorde problem once and for it would have oat the Price of a single that you of what would you have done with one concorde answer Given it to Al its a Good and recognition of the Groat Power if the pro Israel lobby in the United the word to the columns i comments s the soviet Union sets Oulton achieve peace and Mutual it is time to Batten Down the editors of National review hive Learned that the soviet Union As one of its propaganda to forbid israeli participation in the Moscow i am filed they picked on because Israel is about the Only country in the world one can think the superpowers which predictably will make the so Viets Rue their Tim int Trude Aii trucking to the squalid oligarchs of red China Al the last minute by denying participation to the Tai wanese were protests then against this arrant violation of the olympic but there is no taiwanese lobby to speak and the Canadian government had going or in the hot lust of the whole world to Sec the games knew thai the olympic at the would not tall the games the soviet to Israel and make headway to strategic desire to ingratiate itself with the Arab countries and the third will Start playing an intricate Gama of Here is one Way to do there arc 24 olympic sports each featuring a recognized olympic event in order to qualify to compete is an International a nation must belong to at least five the israelis do but they do not belong to All for they do not compete in the Winter the strategy is one of attrition to Dis qualify from one after another federation until they Wake one Day to find themselves members of loss than the requisite this administrative demarche can proceed hand in hand with ideological South Africa has Ille gaily excluded from the Moscow is always in a position to brandish the Resolution equating zionism with invoking the South african Prece and lock the Gates on there Are signs of i of last the hungarian and yugoslavs pulled out of the world chess championship rather than in they act up their own chess olympics in let them i predict thai if the soviet Union prevails against Israel in the the Moscow olympics will take place without tha participation of the United by the is an election is by no Means necessarily one Cattiny for instance that the Acle is it pro first amendment lobby and no one is supposed to get the pro israelite Are Francc Rcd Tor inc survival of the stale of and fur the respect it is due As a Siv Olimi Well Here is something Luton no which inn1 Fiu Lotf to be solved by the gift of one Nir Nannc to the background is one she Jar but propaganda operations being far it is the olympic which is who doled to take place in and will be to the Ameri can Public by for who Cluj franchise the Abc people paid Over Numy times highest Price previously As we All the soviet Union turns any spectacular into an excuse for aggrandizing the soviet revolution and the socialist it is not enough to Breed Fine stuff them like Strasbourg and have whom win the prices it must be brought Home that they have won these Pritts Uwins lie spiritual nourishment they re Tivod us children of Tho glorious Siim Lisi re Viilup that the communists intend to milk the olympics until All Man Hind hurdles was never in Sergei chairman if the soviet of education and recently wrote thai for the first tiny in the history us us olympic move ment the planes to be held in a socialist slate we Art running to make ills oven a festival t peace which will serve the vital cause us Mutual understanding and cooperation bet Van when no Haw Usu Ratthe White Tom Wicker election Bill appears dead for the moment the death last week of a measure to provide Public linux dog for most of hit costs of senatorial campaigns probably Means the end us any Hope for extensive elections Reform before the voters go to the polls in w3 and look at the three twice in 1974 and once in the Senate approved Public financing for Senate campaigns but each Lime by a declining vote the House of has never voted for Public financing of House campaigns and has three times forced re Moval of the Senate provisions from elections now even the Senate has backed Down of Public succumbing to a Fili Buster by Southern democrats and their Republican he memory of watergate in at least in and with it the in the the spirit of Reform u so weak that the leadership wont even schedule a vote on election Day although the Carter administration already has surren dered to pressure and made the proposed Tow ept Tott in w Igi Thitpa Jet remit Wal liw of Judi in be  i Reform optional rather than mandatory for the thus the Outlook is both for con Gressional approval and for subsequent adaption of election Day registration by the the Lack of voter participation continues to be one of the scandals of american democracy and one of the major reasons is the array of Legal barriers in most makes voter registration difficult and requires it to be done ions before election As for the of repealed proposition thai election Day registration would encourage fraud baloney theres plenty of elec Tion fraud under the present restrictive slate most of which were in stalled by political machines to perpetuate their own control of who votes and who fraud and participation Are two different and those who try to link them Are usually More interested in holding Down the latter than the As to Campaign since the stated object is to remove As much Spe Cial interest Money As possible from the political and since Public financing was generally perceived to have worked to that effect in the is7s presiden tial the senators who killed it May yet hear from the Public especially those Liberal republicans like senators Weicker and Helm who spent More than 2 million of his own Money to get elected last year who voted to support the a of is not necessarily a Good thing just because its called a and the Public financing Bill had numerous it would permitted the Treasury to pay for up to per cent of a senatorial for which seems it set spending limits for each stale that seemed generally so Low As to favor the Bill was an improvement on the while the presidential Taw ruled them out for the general election Cam it made belter provision for minor party and Independent who could have qualified for Matching it would have aided the ponies by permitting them to do More for their out the Cost being charged to the spending the Bill would have granted major party candidates 23 per cent of their spending limit at the outset of the Campaign a necessity in states with late like new but this was probably the major Factor in its defeat senators in one party or who usually have no oppo recognized that that s per cent Grant probably would guarantee Strong oppose when otherwise there might have been it May seem that Howard the Senate minority made opposition to Public financing a part line his Hugh had supported similar plans lit 1974 and 1975 and on its face the by would seem to help republicans Field Strong candidates in the democratic of the but it might help democrats in some solidly Republican too Many republicans oppose Federal subsidies on and also dislike the expanding bureaucracy the Mil would have required in the Federal elections i it was a Carter administration Mea even if the Senate had passed the of its prospects in the House would have been after Only about 70 to 80 House seats Are sharply in about 50 members elected with no opponent at most of the others have weak Why should these Bers vote for a pubic financing bin that might Well guarantee them Strong opposition in every election Sci in Vowk Rimm