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Athletes, upset
by early disco
closing, storm
Olympic village
MOSCOW (UPI) - Western athletes,
angered by the early closing of the
Olympic village discotheque, ram-
paged through the sprawling compound
early yesterday in a venting of their
frustrations and boredom only eight
days into the Games.
Reports said some shouted "Free
Afghanistan!" during the food-
throwing and shouting incident, but the
protest by Australians, Britons,
Brazilians, French and Swedes was ap-
parently aimed at the disco's 11 p.m.
closing time.
SOVIET POLICE intervened twice
and peacefully ended the disturbance
two hours after it began in the crowded
second-floor disco and spread to a food
hall in the closely-guarded compound
where about 40 competitors tossed food.
Witnesses said at one point several
athletes shouted "Liberate
muder, mystery,
and forbidden love.
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Afghanistan!" but Swedish Olympic
sources said the chants apparently
were mis-heard and were for French
singer Silvie Vartan, whose name close
resembles the freedom shout in Fran-
ch.
It was the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan that prompted the United
States to lead the boycott of the Moscow
Games, depriving the XXII Olympiad of
hundreds of world-class athletes from
65 nations.
WITNESSES SAID the most likely
reason for the incident was boredom.
Most athletes have been in Moscow sin-
ce before the Games began July 19 and
the biggest diversion at the tightly
guarded Olympic village is the disco.
"Many of the sports finished yester-
day - swimming and some of the
others - and the athletes wanted to
dance," said Salvador Sobrino, a
Mexican diver. "The music stopped
and everyone wanted to keep dancing.
"Some people were sitting on the
floor and they started shouting. When I
saw that, I left to my room," he said.
A British athlete said, "There were
plenty of people who were there who
had a lot to drink when they closed the
disco and wanted to carry on. It moved
across to the food hall and there was
some food-throwing. It was all the
Western nations."
In the competitions, athletes from
communist countries continued to
dominate, but Spain and Brazil each
picked up a yachting gold medal. A
Russian won thecycling individual
road race.
After Sunday's events, the mid-point
in the two-week Games, Western
athletes had won only 22 of the 113 gold
medals awarded and communist-bloc
nations had won 91 and 82 per cent ot
the 341 gold, silver and bronze medals.
The Ann Arbor Film Cooperative
Presents at Aud. A: ° $1.50
TUESDAY, JULY 29
PARIS BELONGS TO US
(Jacques Rivette, 1960)
7:00 AUD. A
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THE SPIDER'S STRATAGEM
(BernardoBertolucci 1969)
9:00 AUD. A
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English subtitles.
Tomorrow: THE THING and ATTACK
OF THE 50-FOOT WOMAN in Aud. A.
Building for sale
Pan American World Airways has announced it has agreed to sell the 59-story
Pan Am building in midtown Manhattan to the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Co. for a real estate record-breaking $400-million.
Miami group tries to
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MIAMI (AP) - A European im-
migrant fluent in six languages has
collected more than 7,000 signatures on
a petition to abolish Dade County's
bilingual programs and make Miami an
English-speaking city again.
Emmy Shafer insists she isn't anti-
Cuban, but she feels the Dade County
Commission's 1973 declaration making
the Miami area bilingual in Spanish and
English encourage Latins to ignore
American ways.
AS A RESULT, she said, non-
Hispanics feel like "prisoners living in
their own community."
There are about 600,000 Latins in
metropolitan Miami, about 40 per cent
of the total population.
Since July 15, Mrs. Shafer has
organized "Citizens for Dade United"
to collect signatures on petitions to
outlaw use of Spanish in county gover-
nment. She says she already has more
than 7,000 signatures toward the 26,213
required to place the proposal on the
Nov. 4 ballot.
IRONICALLY, THE vote would have
to be taken in both English and Spanish
because Dade County is under federal
order to conduct all elections in both
languages.
The proposal would prohibit the coun-
ty from spending the $200,000 a year it
now budgets to have an Office of Latin
Affairs and to promote Spanish culture.
Shafer also objects to requirements
that applicants for many jobs speak
Spanish. Many firms in Miami do a
thriving business in Latin America.
Eduardo Padron, a Cuban and dean
of instruction at Miami Dade Com-
munity College's downtown campus,
said Latins would turn back the
referendum.
"We're here to stay," Padrom said.
"We're not going away. Latin
American businessmen and tourists
already are concerned about an anti-
Latin and anti-Cuban feeling here.
These people with the petition show
ignorance and a lack of understanding
what Miami is all about in the 1980's."
But carpet-cleaner Allen Joyce, 19,
who dropped by to sign up, objected to
using public money to promote Spanish.
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