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...final count of attending countries is 140, a record, with the Soviet Union and 16 sympathizers declining for reasons of either security or insecurity and two others demurring independently. Libya withdrew on the eve of the Games after two of its journalists, alleged to be terrorists, were refused U.S. entry. About 8,000 athletes are off on a farflung, 16-day spree splashed with hot pastel colors that might have been selected for their political insignificance or because this Olympiad is privately financed and they happened to be the shades on sale...
...Mauroy's days were numbered, most assumed that he would remain in place through the fall to act as a lightning rod for attacks on the tightfisted 1985 budget. But the left's dismal showing in the European elections forced Mitterrand to act. A fortnight ago, he withdrew his controversial legislation to bring the country's private schools under greater state control and announced that he would launch a complicated constitutional process to permit referendums on questions involving "civil liberties." As the President told TIME during a Bastille Day reception in the Elysée gardens...
...troops remain in the southern third of the country, where they face the Syrian army in the Bekaa Valley and try to keep the coastal region free of the P.L.O. The occupation costs $1.2 million a day, but there is a human toll as well. Since the Israeli army withdrew from the Beirut area to Lebanon's Awali River last September, 55 soldiers have been killed and 436 wounded in terrorist attacks. Most of the violence is caused by the Shi'ite Muslims, who make up more than half of the almost 1 million population in southern Lebanon and deeply...
...Saudi F-15 fighters firing air-to-air missiles. One, and possibly both, of the Iranian planes was shot down. A short time later, Iran sent eleven more F-4s into the skies over the Persian Gulf. Again, the Saudis intercepted them. After a brief standoff, the Iranian planes withdrew...
...Soviets withdrew from the Olympic Games not because they feared their athletes would not be safe, nor to "get even" for President Carter's removal of American athletes from the Games in Moscow in 1980. The real reason: they fear defection by their own athletes...