Support for boycotting the Moscow Olympics is slow to gather
With less than four months to go before the Moscow Olympics, just about the only people sweating harder than would-be Olympic athletes are the American officials trying to keep them from going. Last week the U.S. pressed its boycott campaign while plans for a counter-Olympics inched along and undecided nations continued to pass the baton. Among the week's setbacks, standoffs and small triumphs:
> In Washington, about 100 athletes, coaches, trainers and sports officials invited to the White House to discuss the boycott greeted...
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