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LeBel SatisfiedWith TourneyMONTREAL (CP) — Robert LeBel, embattled president of the International Ice Hockey Federation, said Wednesday he believes the recent world hockey tournament was “a darn good one” despite the protests of Russia and Czechoslovakia.The Communist countries, who have two of the world’s strongest amateur hockey teams, refused to attend the tournament in Colorado Springs, Colo., because the allied travel office in Berlin would not give the East German team travel visas.The Russians have sincecalled for LeBel’s ousting and the drawing up of a new charter for the IIHF to prevent“the interference of politics into sports.”“If they want me out,” LeBel said Wednesday, “they can do it at our summer congress in 1963 when my term expires anyway. It’s Europe’s turn to have a president, so I’ll be gone and I suppose a few of the members will be happy.’*LeBel said 14 hockey federations sent teams to the world tournament, indicating that support for his stand was widespread.“The calibre of play was good and the Swedes won a deserved championship,” he said. “Nothing stopped the Russians and Czechs from entering if they wanted to.”VOLKSWAGENOWNERS
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Thu, Mar 22, 1962
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