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...elite of our sportsmen have died and the Olympic spirit died with them." So said Israeli Deputy Premier Yigal Allon last week as his countrymen buried their dead of Munich. The nation's Olympic hopes had never been especially high; Israel has no professional sports and only mediocre amateur games. Nonetheless, the men who died last week represented their country's best hope of improving that record. As Shmuel Larkin, head of the Israeli delegation to Munich, put it: "This crime has thrown Israeli sport back ten years." The victims...
DAVID BERGER, 28, a weight lifter -from Shaker Heights, Ohio, had set tied in Israel in 1971. Berger, who held dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship, was a law graduate of Columbia University. He had postponed beginning his law practice while he trained for the Olympics. After Munich, Berger intended to marry and enter the Israeli army. His parents. Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin Berger, learned of his death while watching the Games on TV in Shaker Heights. All Ohio state flags were at half-staff last week in his memory...
...Arabic-speaking Jew from Libya, was the country's top weight-lifting champion. Recalled an Olympic committee member: "He was so crazy about sports that he lost two jobs because he spent more time training than working." Romano's latest job was as a window decorator. At Munich, muscle damage in one leg had prevented him from lifting the 430 kilograms that he could usually heft without trouble. He was due to return home to his wife and three daughters for an operation after the Games...
...recriminations that followed the Munich massacre suggest, the answers are far from clear. While Israel's Premier Golda Meir was thanking Bonn for its desperate efforts, other Israelis were vehemently agreeing with the Tel Aviv daily Hatzofeh that the whole tragedy might have been avoided had West Germany not "surrendered" in the past to the demands of terrorists; last February, Bonn delivered a cool $5,000,000 cash ransom to Palestinian hijackers who had taken over an Athens-bound Lufthansa 747 with 186 passengers and crew members and diverted the plane to Aden. For their part, German officials complained...
...flown some 130 jailed leftists out of the country in order to free four kidnaped diplomats (one of them an American). Now, Brazilian officials suggest that they will not be so quick to open the prison gates the next time terrorists grab a foreign diplomat. In the wake of Munich, angry Washington officials were saying that "the U.S. view is now close to that of the Israelis." In a flurry of announcements, the Administration promised special efforts to protect American Jews traveling abroad and to lead a global diplomatic attack on terrorist organizations...