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1968 Summer OlympicsHost Mexico Wins54.;arroircAore;haDelay Of BoycottBRAZZAVILLE, The Congo (UPI)—An almost certain African boycott of the 1968 Summer Olympic Games was postponed Sunday to permit the host nation, Mexico, a final appeal.The Executive Bureau of the Supreme Council of Sport in Africa—meeting in this Congolese capital to consider it; reaction to readmission o South Africa to Olympic competition-pushed a final boycot1 decision back to its secre afternoon session, so that the Mexican Organizing Committee could further express its point of view,In a message read to the Executive Bureau Sunday morning, Mexico said it “hopes that no country will make a final decision until all possibilities of a solution have been exhausted.Mexican representatives Dr. Eduardo Hay and Robert]asel!as urged the Council to ollow the example of African lations who decided to attend the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in New Delhi India, despite the presence of South Africa,The plea said the hosts “hope that the repudiation and sane tions that may understandably be agreed upon, by the African counties will in no way result in harm to Mexico, whose policies and actions are entirely different from those that are justly condemned in South Africa.’*Despite the Mexican appeal, the Executive Bureau was almost certain to approve : boycott of the Mexican games.nsdieion.foofoo12.which could affect almost 4t nations on this continent.At an open session earlier Sunday, delegates attacked the International Olympic Commit tee’s IOC President Avery Brundage. Cables were reported arriving from Olympic com miltces all over Africa, pledging support for any boycott action.Jean Claude Ganga, the Council’s General Secretary, said the Executive Bureau would take no heed of a telegram by International Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage asking it to defer any decision until it gets a letter explaining the reasons behind die IOC vote to allow South Africa to send a racially mixed team to the Mexico Games.ChisthebirforIhianKrovthibeitnon-whites beastowSiaiISBackBRUNDAGEth Sealsceengeoftoinbyndn’sgoal, his 24th of the season, came while Oakland was playing one man short.Less than a minute later Oakland tied the game at 2-2 on a close in shot by Gerry Ehman with assists by Billy Harris and Art Erickson at 13:47.Oakland stormed back to grab a 8-2 lead at 4:22 of the third period on a goal by George Swarbrick with assists from Larry Popein and Alain Caron.PARIS (UPI) — Avery Brundage, president of the Inter* national Olympic Committee said Sunday any African boycott of the Mexico City summer Olympics would hurt non-white members of the South African team “who have waited a long time for this chance.”“They (the non-whites) are not responsible for the apartheid policy of their government, and to leave them out of the Olympic Games would serve to punish them for something for which they are totally innocent,” said Brundage.In a prepared statement, Brundage stressed that “South Africa was not invited” to the Olympic Games despite everything that bad been written.The Olympic Games are competitions between individuals and not between nations and it is a multiracial committee made up of members with equal rights, which was invited to these games,” Brundage said in the commu-c1:bfiIHlcke)Ui Perltd1, Oakland, Brenneman (CahanPenalties: McMahon lt;3:41), Swartirick (5:231, Plafler (12:18*, Erickson (15:42). Shots on Goal: Minnesota 9, Oakland 19. 2nd Perw2, Mlnnewrta, FlUpatrlck 1 Balon, Golds-worthy .9:153, Minnesota, Cullen 24, MacMahon, Fitl-nique.The 80-year-old Brundage said a lot had been spoken about the underprivileged lot of non-whites in South Africa.Today for the first time something is done for them and they have a chance to participate in the Olympic Games with the same chance as everybody,” he said,“Who could have thought this possible a few years ago? It is an enormous forward step, and one which only the IOC could make eome true,” he added.“The non-whites of South Africa have long waited for this chance and it is dreadful to think that those who pretend to be their friends want to deprive them of it,” Brundage said.
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