Double standards
Sir, —R. J. Dixon (June 21) has not validated the claim of a double standard in accepting a rugby game against a French team and opposing one against South Africa. The Rainbow Warrior affair, tragic and despicable though it was, is a one-off aberration in the normal, friendly relationship between the two nations. The nuclear-testing issue is a serious difference, but whether a sporting boycott is an appropriate response has yet to be shown. Perhaps R. J. Dixon could make out a case for it, and let us judge. Both affairs are being addressed by the two parties’ elected representatives. Apartheid is an ongoing, deliberate, and murderous persecution of a disfranchised majority by a dictatorial minority. At the sporting level, the South African
Council on Sport, representing the majority of sports people, has called for a sports boycott of its country until apartheid is abolished. I know of no similar call from France.—Yours, etc.,
A. J. CAMPBELL. June 22, 1986.
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