European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 3, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Not 3 Model of the sports Center capable of seating 45,000 in indoor stadium under construction in Moscow for the 1980 olympics. Moscow works to by Craig r. Whitney new York times t the airports Aeroflot s jets Are being fitted out with the bold motto official olym Pic  on the Southwest Edge of the City brigades of construction workers from places As far away As Azerbaijan and Georgia Are raising the 16-Story buildings that will soon become the olympic Village for the 1980 games now less than two years away. If there s any place where it can be guaranteed that the facilities will be ready in time the soviet Union must be it and officials of the olympic organizing committee Here say everything is going according to plan. It will Cost 220-230 million rubles $319-333 Mil lion said Allan e. Starodub an official of the com Mittee during a press tour of the construction Sites recently. We expect it will pay for itself he added but Well  Many of the olympic facilities in fact were already Here Long before Moscow was designated As the 1980 site and Are simply being modernized or expanded for the games. The Central Complex the massive Lenin stadium on the Moscow River was built 22 years ago. It is now swarming with construction workers who will refit it and complement it with sports Arenas an open swimming Pool and a Palace of sports for the games. The olympic Village is sprouting from what used to be the farms and Orchards of Tropa Yovo around its unused but still standing onion domed Church and the Pace of the construction done by Crews from All Over the country seems to indicate a National Effort of the first magnitude. Already a new television transmission Center is being built next to the existing one at Osta Kino presumably with some of the $36 million that the nation Al broadcasting company paid the soviet government for the american rights. In All it will Cost Abc $85 million. Football stadiums basketball courts and gymnasiums Are springing up All Over Moscow and the official Emblem a schematic representation of one of the famous Moscow Gingerbread skyscrapers above the five olympic rings is seen almost everywhere. The olympic Village will House 12,000-13,000 athletes in 1980 and have a Post office a polyclinic a department Page 10 the stars and stripes work is moving ahead on the new olympic swimming Pool in Moscow. Sunday september 3, 1978 ready store and a supermarket to serve them. But it won t go to waste after they leave and will become new housing for crowded muscovites. The olympic press Center being built 40 minutes away downtown for the 4,400 correspondents and 3,000 television and radio technicians who the government says will be accredited will become Headquarters for no Vosti the soviet propaganda Agency. Even the numbers of foreign tourists who will be allowed in to see the games Are already known about 300,000 in All according to Vitaly Smirnov vice chairman of the Moscow organizing committee. There will be up to 10,000 foreign tourists Here for the games at any one time Starodub said and each will be entitled on the average to one ticket to an olympic event every Day he is  it s Clear that there will be greater demand for tick ets than we can satisfy Starodub acknowledged. Foreign visitors will not simply be Able to Board air planes to Moscow when the cames begin either the Only Way to the games for most of them will be through the soviet tourism monopoly i tourist which is laying out about 50 different prearranged itineraries. Some olympic buffs May find themselves being whisked away on overnight Tours to the other olympic events in Tallin and Kiev. Others will take sightseeing trips far from the games in Georgia soviet Central Asia and Siberia. One of the advantages of this from the officials Point of View is that overnight train journeys ease the Strain on hotel space which will be critical even though one new tourist hotel with a capacity of 10,000 is being built. The visa quotas allotted to each country Are carefully worked out. We Are preparing to distribute tickets for foreign tourists country by country Smirnov said in proportion to the proposed number of athletes of each country taking part the size of its population the volume of tourism and the number of tickets bought for the pre ceding  in theory that should mean a Good number of tickets