European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. July 9, 1960 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary cop n outrageous seizes Moscow Napoleon cot to Moscow Bill it Cost him dearly. The German army could not penetrate the City during world War ii. Bui Ted Turner stood proudly saturday in the Center of Moscow and surveyed what his millions had wrought a peaceful sports spectacle. This most american of capitalists who keeps Jug gling his finances in Giddy Rule or ruin spirals had helped pull off a minor Miracle of the sporting world pulling american and soviet athletes in the same Arena i m just hoping we can have improved relation Between the two countries for your children and mine for the Birds and the Flowers and that kind of stuff instead of blowing us All to Smithereens Turner said before heading to saturday s opening Goodwill games ceremonies. There Are Many reasons Turner was Able to pullout the Goodwill games 11 million Good reasons As a matter of fact. He came up with the idea of a olympic style Celebration and he paid the soviet government s7.s million for costs and another s3.smillion Foi broadcast rights to 129 hours for the network which Turner owns. Because of an admirable amount of cooperation Between soviet officials and the Turner broadcasting system there were 103,000 fans in Lenin Centra stadium on saturday night for the opening ceremonies which rivalled those of the 1984 summer olym Pic games for pageantry card displays and music and which included a bid for peace from soviet Lead or Mikhail 5. Gorbachev and an anti missile Motif in the card Section. Over the next two weeks the soviet fans will watch american and soviet athletes compete. The americans sat out the summer games in Moscow in1980 because of the soviet involvement in Afghani sum and the russians Sal out the 1984 summer games in los Angeles in retaliation. Here was Captain outrageous once known mainly As the skipper in the 1977 America s cup Victory by courageous who was once forbidden by the base Ball commissioner to manage his own team the at Lanta Brave a Rhet Butler look alike the kind of swashbuckling american that soviet officials used to warn their children about. Instead of being object lesson no. 1 in a soviet civics class. Turner was if not the conquering hero at least Darling Uncle Teddy from Atlanta shuffling his feet and letting the world know shucks it was nothing. It is quite conceivable that by pouring hit company s Money into the Goodwill games he could Cre ate a monster that will provide an alternative to the olympic movement riddled As it has been by boy Cotts by third world. American and soviet interests in the past three summer games. With South Korea the Host for the 1988 summer games and North Korea still negotiating for More than a Cameo role As Host of a Lew minor events those games an flagrantly open to political Maneu vering. Americans May enjoy waving the flog at Commer Cial patriotic tests like last weekend s statue of lib erty real a Bob Hope extravaganza or the 1984we re no i and nobody is no. 2 summer games but Flag waving can get old and there Are some inthe olympic movement who think Turner could help scuttle the susceptible olympics by creating a private spectacle like the Goodwill games. Or he could bankrupt his television Empire with his eight digit losses in these games. He would not be the first Leader to come trudging Back from Moscow with his coffers Bare. But Captain outrageous was having no fears of any scorched Earth disasters As he prepared for the opening ceremony. He is a card carrying southerner with a passion for causes and his mind was spinning with Hope and truth and Fellowship. The Way 1 see it you be got to keep up you contacts in the world Turner said. As a boy my image of the soviet Union was All those tanks run Ning through red Square but let s face it they Only have that Parade once a year. I Don t believe the want to blow up the whole  the genesis of these games has been reported shaving come on the morning during the 1984 sum Mer games when Turner walked into the office of his executive vice president Robert i. Wussler an old russian band and said Gol Dum Why can t Wedo something like that but better with the rus sians Wussler who has visited the soviet Union More forget about the concept which was a Good thing because Turner had not forgotten. I be been thinking about this since t visited mos cow in March of 1984," Turner said recently. I tried to talk them into coming to los Angeles be cause two wrongs Don t make a right. I be tried to qualify for three olympics myself and 1 know How great the olympics arc Tor making friends. Everybody talks about what a great Success la was but it was like the National league congratulating itself for having a great world series when the american league never even showed up. This Lime Well see who s the  is just the slightest tinge of self interest in the Captain s View of his games. To some degree he has rented out the stunning Panorama of Moscow As a backdrop for 129 hours of summer television View ing and he wants a Good event. Some nations and sports federations have not sent their Best athletes Uncertain sports and the United states celebrated the dignified Centennial of the Slatic of Liberty by hold ing Back the Amateur Boxen who arc members of the military from such a crass commercial event As this they were absolutely right because there Are pos ters for a certain american soft drink on yellow buses outside the Kremlin and advertisements for Aeroflot amid the Western Burma shave signs at outsides. No pure american Amateur should be exposed to such Huc stering by Turner and his Colic Guys. Captain outrageous As they called him in new port ruffled a few ribbons and Epa lets the other Day in one of his free form soliloquies on the history of the world. The Captain has discovered that the soviet Union is hardly a classless society Wilh egads first class Section an car offal. Even with the russians and East germans an cubans out in Force the rest of the world particularly Western Europe has not been encouraged to Send its Best squads. There Are Sparks of excitement in track and held but some performances by gymnasts and figure skaters will be Cameo appearances like Rocky Vii or the godfather xjvv1but otherwise Turner is making what for him is a Model Low key hype for the athletic Validity of these games. This former cold War Warrior with his born again world View seems Innoce naive and not without Charm. Hitler never got  Turner said picking upon the conversational theme of his interviewer. The russians would t let him get to Moscow. The firs time flew Here i came on Lufthansa. Ninety per cent of the passengers were West germans  on vacation spending Money like tourists. I wanted to grab them and ask hey in t nil Bette than 40 Yean before soldiers lying Frozen in the Snow much better and the Beauty part is that the rus sians get to make a few Bucks by striking a Deal wit this capitalist and kicking off a sporting event in a stadium named for Vladimir Ilyitch Unin himself. Joyner smashes record in Goodwill heptathlon a Kle Joyner co note to Tep Lucini record id in Goodwill Tinc. . Moscow a Jackie Joyne shattered the world record for the heptathlon at the Goodwill games  East St. Louis 111. Athlete broke the 7,000-Point Barrier for the first Tim and added More than 200 Points to the previous  on tuesday . National Cham Pion Pam Marshall won the women s200 meters in 22.12 seconds. A bulgarian Yordanka Dankova registered the fastest time this year in the women s 100-meter hurdles at 12,40,leading a Field in which All eight competitor broke 13  women s javelin went to world record Holder Petra Felke of ban Ger Many with a heave of 232 feel 3 inches about 15 feet Short of her world  the women s 5,000, Olea Bondarenko set a soviet National record of 5 03.5 i. Shaving i i seconds off her old Mark. American Cindy Bremser was third in 15 11.78, the fastest time by a . Woman this   athletes however did not fare u  top american at 1,500 meters Sieve Scott finished third behind Sovi ets Pavel Yakovlev the Winner in3 39.36, and Igor lot Orev at 3 40.18. Scott who owns a personal Best of3 31.76, was clocked in 3 40.31. The two Best . Women s hurdles Stephanie Hightower and Betina Fitzge Rald Brown failed to reached the  pulled up just before the fourth hurdle in her heal and Fitzgerald Brown was badly Scalen finishing fifth. The . Women s volleyball team olympic Champion in 1984 but now with a virtually All new team was eliminated by Japan in four sets 15-13, 18-20, 15 11,15-13.a third world record was set at the games this one in  Valumae of the soviet Union chopped five hundredths of a second offer own Mark in qualification runs for the women s 200-meter sprint Marshall a 23-year-old from Ingle Wood calif., who also won the 100 me ters at the athletics Congress championships in Indianapolis last month edged Poland s Ewa Kaspzak who set a National record in 22.13.silkc Ladisch a former world record see Joiner on Page 26