World News Tonight (ABC) - 1980-01-18
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[0:04] >> from ABC. This is World News Tonight
[0:07] with Peter Jennings in London. And from
[0:09] our desk in Washington, Frank Reynolds.
[0:12] >> Good evening. The controversy over a
[0:14] possible boycott of the Olympics
[0:16] continues to dominate the news here
[0:17] tonight. Within the next few days,
[0:19] President Carter will decide whether to
[0:21] request an American boycott of the
[0:23] Moscow Olympics this summer in protest
[0:26] against the Soviet invasion of
[0:27] Afghanistan. Today, two top officials of
[0:31] the American Olympic Committee went to
[0:32] the White House, and when they left,
[0:34] they made it clear they still believe a
[0:36] boycott would be a mistake. Here's a
[0:39] report from White House correspondent
[0:40] Sam Donaldson.
[0:43] >> US Olympic officials met for two and a
[0:45] half hours with Secretary of State Cyrus
[0:47] Vance and Presidential Council Lloyd
[0:49] Cutler in an effort to convince them
[0:51] that boycotting the Olympic Games is a
[0:53] bad idea. I consider it inappropriate
[0:57] because to boycott would be to boycott
[1:01] the games
[1:03] and to boycott the owner of the games,
[1:06] the International Olympic Committee. The
[1:08] problem we have is with the site and uh
[1:11] it should be pursued through the
[1:13] International Olympic Committee which is
[1:15] the owner of the games.
[1:17] The Olympic officials said they want to
[1:19] be patriotic Americans, but in a written
[1:21] statement made it clear they will not
[1:23] let the president tell them what to do
[1:24] in this matter. The statement said in
[1:27] part, "If the president of the United
[1:28] States advocates a boycott, we will
[1:30] immediately poll the US team and based
[1:33] on the collective view of the a