Jimmy Carter’s one-term presidency is marked by many consequential world events, including the US-led boycott of the 1980 ...
As Canadians unite to support Canadian businesses and boycott U.S.-made everything ... Vancouver Island looking across to the snow-capped Olympic Mountains in Washington with a cautious message.
The U.S. Does Not Need a Sovereign Wealth Fund North ... Mills, at one time an Olympic-caliber wrestler, was stung by Carter’s decision to boycott the 1980 Olympics. “At the time, I would ...
“We’d heard the same rumors (about a U.S. boycott). We were all wondering if the Olympic committee was going to take action before the boat sailed. That had come up in most everyone’s minds.” She ...
In a hotel in Paris last week, Sebastian Coe orders a cappuccino before sitting down with MARCA. He arrived on the eve of ...
All 87 on board were killed, including 14 boxers and eight team staff members. Two months later, the U.S. decided to boycott ...
LAUSANNE--The International Olympic Committee said on ... The diplomatic boycott, encouraged for months by members of the U.S. Congress and rights groups, comes despite efforts to stabilise ...
“The same fate can befall us at the next Olympic Games in Los Angeles in the US ... attended every Games except Montreal ’76. It led a boycott of the Games in protest of the apartheid regime ...
impose trade sanctions and order a U.S. boycott of the Moscow Olympics after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. Hoping to instill optimism, he delivered what the media dubbed his “malaise ...