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Article text apparently produced for the Interfaith Reporter, September 1981. The article says the 1984 Olympic Games may be taken away from Los Angeles, moved to another country; more likely, at least thirty African nations and some others may boycott the games ... and some of them refuse to compete with any American athletes anywhere in the world. The article says unlike American rugby organizers, most athletes, organizers, and nations are acting in accordance with United Nations appeals for a total boycott of South African sports, so long as apartheid remains the basis of that society; the International Olympics Committee ousted South Africa in 1968 because athletes are chosen and trained on the basis of race rather than skill, a violation of the Olympic creed. The article says the Springboks, South African rugby team, are scheduled to play in Chicago, Albany, and New York City in mid-September. The article discusses the Coalition to Stop Apartheid Rugby Tour, sanctions, civil disobedience, demonstrations, religious and civil rights groups, anti-apartheid groups, divestiture of private and public funds, the South African consulate in Beverly Hills, South African police forces, corporations, booklets and periodicals, audio-visuals, speakers, reference files, Bill Sutherland, AFSC (American Friends Service Committee), KPFK (90.7) Teach-in on Southern Africa, the struggle for political and economic independence in Southern Africa, Californian-based banks, loans to the apartheid regime, and New Zealand.

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SWEEPING APARTHEID UNDER THE RUG-BY

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