Poles And Czechs Cancel U.S. Sports
(N.Z P.A. Reuter—Copyright) MOSCOW, July 12. Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia have refused to play basketball, sprint or jump with United States sportsmen because of the Vietnam war.
Moscow set the pace by cancelling two scheduled engagements—an athletic meetagainst the United States at Los Angeles on July 23 and 24 and a basketball en counter with the Americans later this month in Moscow The presidiums of the Soviet track and field and basketball federations have endorsed the decision for their teams not to play in the two events. In Warsaw, an evening newsaper published the announcement that the Polish athletic team .would not meet the Americans this week-end in protest at the “criminal escalation” of the Vietnam war and United States bombing of the suburbs of Hanoi and Haiphong. The meeting was
scheduled to take place at Berkeley, California. In Prague, the Czechoslovak Basketball Federation cancelled planned friendly matches with the United States in protest against “brutal air raids" on North Vietnam.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31111, 14 July 1966, Page 15
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