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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Israelis Are Looking Ahead to 1980 Olympic Games
By HASKELL COHEN
TEL AVIV (JTA) —
Chaim Glovinsky, trea-
surer of the Israel Olympic
Committee, has returned
from a three-day meeting
with Soviet officials in Mos-
cow and reported that from
all indications the Israel
Olympic contingent at the
Olympic Games in Moscow
in 1980 will be treated with
utmost respect.
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ing, together with the in-
ternational Olympic repre-
sentatives from other coun-
tries, with Vice President
Vitaly Smirnov of the
Soviet Olympic organizing
committee, indicates we
have nothing to fear. Since
we have no diplomatic re-
lations with Russia, we
shall be represented by the
Finnish Embassy."
Glovinsky said that
Smirnov "took us on a tour
of the playing venues and
showed us around the
Olympic village. Off-hand I
feel the facilities I saw
there are nicer than those in
Munich and Montreal." The
outdoor stadium seats
100,000 people and organi-
zing plans call for the
entrance of the teams open-
ing the Games to be less tir-
ing and tedious than in the
previous competitions, he
said.
We have a slight prob-
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culty," Glovinsky noted.
"There is no way we can
get kosher meat for our
athletes. There isn't any
available to the Soviet
organizing committee
and they have asked us
not to import meat prod-
ucts for fear it may be-
come tainted. However,
the menu will be changed
every five days and we
shall have a big selection
of fish products, vegeta-
bles and fruits."
The synagogue in the
Olympic village will be
available to all members of
the Jewish faith participat-
ing for the various coun-
tries entered in the 1980
Olympiade, he said.
"All Israeli athletes will
enter and leave the Soviet
Union without requiring
visas," Glovinsky stated.
"Of course, the 170 Israeli
visitors will have to secure
the necessary visas before
they enter the country and
these will be obtained
through the good services of
the Finnish Consulate in
Tel Aviv. All countries will
be restricted so far as the
number of supporters per-
mitted to attend since Rus-
sia wants to make certain
its own population has the
opportunity to take in the
Games."
A Tel Aviv source indi-
cated that it will cost each
Israeli a minimum of IL
80,000 ($3,200) to spend 15
days in the USSR.
"On my -trip I was ac-
corded every courtesy, in-
cluding the use of a car,
guided tours and splendid
social hospitality,"
Glovinsky concluded. How-
ever, Israeli observers are
less enthusiastic over the
reception the Israeli team
will receive, remembering
the hardships encountered
by the athletes in the Soviet
Union during the Univer-
sity Games conducted in the
summer of 1973.
In addition, many Israeli
HIAS and JDC
Offices Criticized
TEL AVIV (ZINS) —
Arye Dulzin, chairman of
the World Zionist Organiza-
tion and Jewish Agency
Executives, recently called
for non-Israeli Jewish
organizations to concern
themselves only with those
Russian Jews who want to
immigrate to Israel.
Several members of the
Knesset have called in re-
cent weeks for the closing of
the Joint Distribution
Committee and HIAS
offices in Vienna as a way to
reduce the number of Rus-
sian "drop-outs" who opt to
go to the West rather than
Israel.
sportswriters expressed
considerable pessimism as
they recalled the difficulties
they • experienced with
Soviet censorship and get-
ting their visas cleared.
They said they-anticipate a
rough time from the Soviet
authorities when the time
comes for them to depart for
the USSR and enter Mos-
cow.
Meanwhile, Shmuel Lal-
kin, chairman of the Israel
Sports Federation, feels
that Israel might be able to
quality as many as 40
athletes for the competition.
At the present moment
there is a strong likelihood
that the basketball team
could quality in the final
eliminations which will be
held in Switzerland in May.
Lalkin feels that an-
other team which stands
a good chance of making
it all the way to Moscow
might be the water popo
squad. As it turns out, the
Asian eliminations will
be held in Israel, pro-
vided, of course, if three
foreign nations partici-
pate together with Is-
rael's polo squad in the
eliminations.
As of the moment, Japan,
usually reluctant to come to
Israel for fear of offending
the Arab League nations,
has acquiesced and defi-
nitely will appear.
Lalkin indicated that
with the acceptance of one
more Asian country the
elimination will take place
shortly. In the event that no
other Asian countries enter
the qualifying round to be
held in Tel Aviv, then Israel
and Japan automatically go
on to Europe to fight it out
for the 16 spots which will
be open in the water polo
field.
As Lalkin sees it, there is
a good possibility that the
Holy Land squad will have
at least two shooters, par-
ticularly in the rifle compf
tition, two or thre,,,I
wrestlers, two yacht crews
comprised of four men, pos-
sibly all of the American
and/or pseudo-Israelis who
have come over to partici-
pate and are willing to go to
the Soviet Union on Israeli
passports. This could
number a minimum of four
participants.
The swimming squad
will be very strong and
may go up to five or six
contestants. Fencing will
qualify one or two
athletes.
Glovinsky, in his discus-
sion with Soviet authorities
as to the certainty of the Is-
raeli citizens getting to the
USSR, was told by the
tourist people in the USSR
that IL 40,000 ($1,600) per
person was required in ad-
vance. In the event that
visas, for one reason or an-
other, are notobtained, the
fans who shell out the
money will lose their depos-
its.
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