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change its name, flag and an-
them to avoid a political

outcome of next February's - olash with Peking.

Winter Olympics, the New
York ski resort at Lake
Placid is assured a footnote
in Olympic history.

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For it will be there com-
munist Chinese athictes will
compete in the Olympics for
the first time.

At the moment, Peking
sports officials are planning
only a nine-member team to
compete in speedskating and
figure skating only. But from
that small start there could
come a total realignment of
sporting balance in the
world.

At Moscow in July, for ex-
ample, the Chinese are
already planning a 300
strong team.

China's appearance at
Lake Placid was assured
Monday when the Interna-
tional Olympic Committce
announced the result of its
postal ballot overthe issue of
the membership for Pcking
and Taiwan.

The 10C voted, 62-17. to
accept China as a member
and to require Taiwan to

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Taiwan sports officials in-
dicated they would not com-
ply with the“ IOC ruling
which gave them a deadline
of January | to agree or be
expelled from the Olympics.
Although Chinese athictes
have competed in the Olym-
pics, no Peking represen-
tatives have taken part since
the communist government
took power 30 years ago.

China withdrew from the
Olympics movement in 1958
to protest the IOC's recogni-
tion of Taiwan. China's for-
mal request for readmission
came in 1975, but at that
tame it demanded the expul-
sion of Taiwan

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For the past four years,
IOC President Lord Killanin
has been trying to find a for-
mula that would allow
Taiwan and Peking to com-

te side by side and Mon-

*s vote endorsed his plan
to do that. But while Peking
officials were delighted at
the result, Taiwan sports of-
ficials indicated they would
refuse to accept any new
name and would rather go
out of the Olympics than
compromise their political
principles.

The Taiwan officials said
they planned to take the IOC
to court in Lausanne over
the decision, which they said
violated the IOC's own rules.
But IOC officials said they
were confident of winning
any legal! battle

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