Games reply ‘final’
NZPA-AP Lausanne The Soviet Union’s top Olympic official, in Lausanne for an emergency meeting of the International Olympic Committee, said yesterday that Moscow would not reverse its decision to boycott the summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Mr Maralt Gramov, the president of the Soviet Olympic Committee, told reporters, “The decision is final.”
Mr Gramov conferred for more than an hour yesterday with Mr Peter Ueberroth, the president of the Los Angeles Olympic Organising Committee, but the meeting apparently made no progress towards any change in the Soviet position.
Mr Ueberroth told reporters, “It would be misleading to suggest that we came even an inch closer to
a solution.” With little real hope, the president of the 1.0. C., Mr Juan Antonio Samaranch of Spain, began a last-ditch effort yesterday to persuade the Soviet Union to reverse its decision. Mr Samaranch opened a one-day emergency meeting of the 1.0.C.’s nine-member executive board at the 1.0. C. headquarters in Switzerland to discuss the situation, only two weeks before the deadline for Olympic entries expires. Top American and Soviet Olympic officials were to meet separately and with the board later in the day.
Messrs Ueberroth and Gramov met face-to-face yesterday for the first time since the Soviet Union announced its boycott on May 8, later followed by nine other Soviet-bloc nations. Earlier report, Page 10
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