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A third would let athletes

decide on games boycott

NEWS survey shows

One third of North
Shore residents sur-
veyed feel that the
proposed Canadian
boycott of the Moscow
Olympics should be
decided by the athletes
involved.

That is the conclusion of a
North Shore News telephone
survey carried out last week.

Three hundred and eighty
one North Shore residents
were asked the
question

tollowing
Should the
proposed Canadian boycott
of the Moscow Olympics be
decided by the athletes or
the government”

Thirty nme per cent felt
the government should

decide, 33 per cent said the
athletes should decide. while
another seven per cent «of the
respondents felt both should
decide the matter

Another 13 per cent of the
respondents did not know
who should decide and eight
per cent had no comment

When those people who
did not know or would not
comment are ehminated, the
survey shows almost SO per
cent of those who had made
up thew minds felt the
decision on boycotting the
Moscow Olympics should be
decided by the
government

Canadian

The
Canadian

question of A
boyooth oof the
summer Olympics was raised

after U.S. President Jimmy
Cartér announced that the
United States would boycott
the Olympics if the Soviet
Umon did not withdraw its
troops from Afghanistan by
February 20.

Prime Minister Joe Clark
has supported this stand and
on Thursday he said that
financial support by the
federal government) would
withdrawn from the
Canadian Olymp.ec
Association (COAI fib sends
athletes to the games

He was reacting « the
Internatronal Olympse
OC) decision
carly last acek to go ahead
with the sugamer games as
planned

Clark said the government
would not withhold

Committec’

passports or bar Canadians
from travelling to the Soviet
Union if the COA accepts
Moscow's invitation

Canada’s two represen-
tatives on the IOC voted in
favour of reyecting the
boycott call

Liberal leader Pierre
Trudeau has said that there
should only be a boycott of
the games af a large number
of Western and Third World
nahons support it

NDP leader Ed Broadbent
has also spoken in favour of

an boycott of the Moscow
games

No mayor pohtical figure

has yet suggested giving the
participating athletes a
choace of whether they wist
lo participate or not

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