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...physicians don't collaborate with the government and persuade them to abandon nuclear weapons, "our technological capacity might exceed our moral capabilities," Robert J. Lifton, Yale professor of psychiatry, said Saturday
Would the U.S. be as lonely in its boycott as the Olympic committee had predicted? Carter personally asked some 100 foreign leaders to abandon the Moscow Games, and their responses were extremely slow in coming. The early returns were also discouraging. Even in Great Britain, where Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government strongly supports the U.S. position, the independent British Olympic Association remained adamantly opposed to a boycott. "The Games will be held in Moscow no matter what governments say," contended Lord Exeter, 74, the sixth Marquess of Exeter, and a 1928 gold medal winner in hurdles...
...worldwide debate continued, any formal action either to abandon this year's Games completely or move them from Moscow would have to be taken by the International Olympic Committee, and its position was clear: plans could not, and should not, be changed; on to Moscow...
...President Carter and his top aides in Washington last week that the Community was ready to make major concessions to Yugoslavia and to speed up the negotiations. Meanwhile, TIME has learned, Tito made a poignant, personal appeal to Carter for some kind of assurance that the U.S. would not abandon Yugoslavia to Soviet imperialism after his death. The President responded by promising Tito that the U.S. would come to Yugoslavia's assistance if the Soviets were to invade the country...
These four have produced, within the past few months, records that stand with the most promising work of the year from any gender, male, female or convertible. Their music, despite different shadings of style, shares a boldness of spirit, a feeling of fragility conducting a heavy flirtation with absolute abandon. It can strut tough, cry soft or laugh up a sleeve. The best of it can go big and make the long reach look easy. It is mainline, rock-bottom rock 'n' roll, and it puts a lot of the fellas to shame. Or should, anyhow; but there...