Annotated Archives: The 1984 Olympics

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Author’s Note: This month marks the 40th anniversary of the Soviet announcement that they and other Eastern Bloc countries would boycott the 1984 Olympics. So here’s a column I wrote 15 years ago about the significance of those Olympics, with contemporary annotations.