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Show Oold-silucr coins finance Olympics While he opposed the issuance is-suance of the ill fated Susan B. Anthony dollar Senator Jake Garn is on the other side of a coin question these r!ays in an effort to support the Summer Olympic games. The Utah Senator is a .principal sponsor of legislation legis-lation to authorize the Treasury to mint 56.4 million mil-lion commemorative coins, which would be sold by the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Or-ganizing Com m ittee to finan -ce the summer Olympiad . and support amateur athletics athlet-ics in this country. The Susan B. Anthony Dollar really served no practical purpose, but these commemorative coins would give an important boost to .our dedicated Olympic ath-' ' letes and the Los Angeles games without costingthe sell the coins at profit. This is a unique way of assisting U.S. amateurs to compete with athletes from nations which directly subsidize subsi-dize their training programs. pro-grams. Other countries systematically sys-tematically select and train promising young athletes ! from an early age, providing them along the way with the finest available sports facilities, fa-cilities, free equipment, jobs which allow plenty of time for training and special stat-us. stat-us. I am proud of the fact that this nation's athletes are able to compete at the highest levels without direct di-rect governmental involvement. involve-ment. The tradition of minting special coins to commemorate com-memorate Olympic competition com-petition goes back to ancient Greece. taxpayers any money. The bill provides for 22.4 million $10 silver coins, 2.4 million $50 gold coins, 1.6 million $100 gold coins, and 30 million $1 dollar copper nickle coins. The LAOOC would provide the precious metals to mint the coins or the funds necessary to purchase pur-chase the metals arid could |