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Show A7 The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Sunday, January 24, 1999 leks TARNISHED RINGS: 2002 BRIBERY SCANDAL ae 7 Former Olympic Boosters ant to Lend a Hand Af‘a few logical successors’ to Joklik found,group will suggest them to Leavitt t b t fh t THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — In satirical puppet show, incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- BY CHRISTOPHER SMITH SLOC head. Although the Chicago Tribune ourpitch, as far as I knowthere wasnever a THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE 7 recently described their meetings as an infor- memberof the International Olympic Com- { AsmallgroupofformerSalt Lake Olympic hostersis considering offering suggestionsto ‘Gov. Mike Leavitt on who should be the next {president of the Salt Lake Organizing Comtmittee (SLOC). The SLOC boardofdirectorsultimatelywill Syote on whogets the job, although Leavitt is Yoertain to influence thedecision. & “Some of us have discussed a few logical ¥successors [to Frank Joklik] and I supposeif ye American Money, Advice Fuels Israeli Election for Premiership agree on one we'll write a letter to the [ governor,” says former Utah Goy. Calvin mal caucus, Ramptonsaysit has been merely conversations over lunch about how to move more concerned about the revenues for the Olympics becauseif the revenues don’t cover the costs, somebody hereis going to have to Pick it up.” In the mid-1960s, Rampton was a member of a group of local business leaders who began ies was discouraged. effect on Utah,” says Rampton, now 85. “I'm stumpingfor Salt Lake City to host a Winter Olympics. In 1965, the city was chosen as America’s Lake City. “It’s certainly not a formal effort, just our attempt at helping get throughthis.” choice in the bid competition for the 1972 Winter Games, a move that helped cement the state's imageas a skiing hot spot. Salt Lake would eventually lose the "72 games to Sapporo, Japan. “When we went to Rome [in 1966] to make Rampton, along with Salt Lake Tribune Publisher Emeritus John W. Gallivan, are part of a handful of prominentcity leaders considering offering suggestions on the new our sites,” says Rampton. “It was only staff members that were sent because the 10C tRampton, who waspart of the unsuccessful hid to win the 1972 Winter Gamesfor Salt mittee that had actually visited Utah to look at beyond the Olympic briberyscandal. “Noneofus like the negative publicity, althoughI don’t believe it will have a permanent members wanted to remain impartial.”” In those days of Olympic games courtship, wining and dining of IOC membersbybid cit- yahu and challenger Ehud Barak face off in a TV studioin a fierce election debate. They shout words that their American advisers, At the end, Yitzhak Mordechai had conducted negotiations tempers cool long enough with a new centrist party and was promised the top “We were warned the chairmanofthe IOC, for the candidates to jump up, hand on cumspect in what we did,” says Rampton heart, and hum ‘The “Even if we had wantedto, we didn’t have the moneytoplay fast and loose. Our entire budget was $35,000, which we raised byselling from private sources during each of the two years preceding the 1995 award of the 2002 gamesto Utah. Star-Spangled Banner.” James Carville The skit on the ‘Harzu- fim” showreflects a newreality in Israel. Ahead of May 17 elections, American influence and money seem to be everywhere. Netanyahu and Barak have hired top-of-the-line U.S. strate- gists and millions of dollars are pouringin from American donors Integrity of IOC At Stake as Probe Report Presented —morethan ever before. The growing Americaninvolvement has some Israelis — and than $100,000 apiece. Haggman’s ex-husband apparently drew a ty and Utah Valley State College before and after the bid was won in 1995. The IOCalready hassaid noaetion will be taken against SLOC, which went through its own bloodletting on Jan. 8. The board acceptedthe resignations of Pres- Jerusalem.” Netanyahu, who lived in the ident Frank Joklik and Senior Vice President Dave Johnson,terated a $1.1 million severance Flint and Licensing Director Rod Hamson on paid leaveuntil an independent ethics panel evaluates Japanese IOC board member Chiharu Igaya presents the IOC report Saturday, saying: dent [Samaranch)should clean the house. That'shis first and most important duty.” their roles in the scandal The ethics report is due by Feb. 11, but could be released as early as this week. few IOC members were in town nance director and a general“go- for unrelated purposes, he said, including the release Saturday evening of a reportby an in-house committee evaluating the techni- fer” for its leaders, his nameis on cal merits of six Europeancities tax returns and receipts from some of the gifts — such as guns vying for the 2006 Winter Games. that went to IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch. All 13 IOC suspects submitted written responsesto a come-clean letter from Samaranch. The five 10C memberswho“elected not to be heard in person were advised that their case will be dealt with by the[investigatory] commission solely on their written submis- sions,” said a statement released by the Pound Commission. The statement wasdelivered to representativesof 145 news organizations in Lausanne to coverthe biggest scandal everto rattle the 104-year-old IOC. \ numberofreporters and pho- tographers staked out the en tranceto the 10C’sedifice. But IOCexecutive-board member Kevan Gosper admonished the media not to speculate about whether anyoneseenat IOC headquarters was a suspect. Quite a United States for many years, kept Finkelstein on after his election victory. Finkelstein, an adviser to some of America’s top conservative politicians, was frequently summoned toIsrael to extract Netanyahu from political crises. In this campaign, the duo is using the same formula — portraying the opponent, Barak, as un- delivered snappy one-liners — “Netanyahu is beholden to extremists’’ — in place of long-winded speeches. In previous Israeli campaigns, candidates also relied on foreign advisers and money, but not to such an extent. Menachem Begin and Peres used U.S. strategists in the late 1970s and 1980s, and Peresraised $1.6 million from Canadian distiller Charles Bronfman and French tycoon Jean Friedmanin the 1988 elections. Israeli politics have been radically transformed sincethen. Starting in 1992, the major parties have been holding primaries andsince 1996, voters haveelected their prime minister directly. But after discussing the situation with Australian Olympic ed Press “Presi- should have known, about the program. But none has admitted knowledge of inappropriate payments. The Australian welcomed an IOC investigation broader than Site selection will be made next Junein Seoul, possibly with a new ecutive-board members today to reaffirm formally the IOC’s com- the Pound commission's tightly focusedlookat Salt LakeCity, but said it probably should be conducted by a group distinct from to deflect media questions centering on the latest revelation in the mitment to keep the next two Games in Sydney and Salt Lake City, respectively. The Kenyan IOC member, Charles Nderitu Mukora, already process to be recommended today bythe Pound Commission. Gosper, an Australian,wasleft worldwide scandal, one that di- minishedSalt LakeCity’s unenviable spot on center stage. He tried to downplayFriday's revelation that one of Sydney’s highest ranking bid boosters agreed to pay $70,000 to two Afri- can IOC memberson the eve of the 1993 election in which the Australian city defeated Beijing bytwovotes forthe 2000 Summer Games. “I have no reason tobelieve that was bribery Gosper said Saturday, backing away from stronger statements the previous in which he acknowledgedthe pay ments looked bad and could cost Sydney the Olympics Pound's. He also expressed support for Samaranch remaining in office, saying it would be wrongto panic was suspected of improprieties involving Salt Lake City’s bid at the first sign of trouble and While trying to avoid comparing thesituationsin Salt Lake City oneofIsrael's most vocal Christian supporters, of inciting antiSemitism by his assertion that the community leaders knew, or Committee President John Coates, who admitted pledging the payments to IOC members from Uganda and Kenya, Gosper said he plans to ask his fellow ex- ‘THE WASHINGTON POST American Jewish leaders have accused the Rev. Jerry Falwell, dump a president who made the organization financially well-off while producing some of the and Sydney, Gosper insinuated that Sydney’s actions were cleaner because the money offered greatest Games in modernhisto- camefrom a publicly known fund “Whenasked the samequestion, to help National Olympic Committees (NOCs) in Africato develop athlete-training programs. The Japanese IOC executive-board member Chiharu Igaya said obliquely: ‘The president should Antichrist will be a Jewish male who is probably ‘alive somewheretoday.” The Lynchburg, Va.-based evangelist told a group of pastors in Kingsport, Tenn., that the Antichrist “will be a full-grown coun- terfeit of Christ. Of course, he'll be Jewish.” “We deplore the equation of an ultimate figure of evil with a Jew- ish individual, especially when made byan individual as prominent as Rev. Falwell is on thereligious right,” B'nai B'rith International President Richard Heidemansaid in a statement. The comments by Falwell, founder of Lynchburg’s Liberty University and the now-defunct Moral Majority, were a double jolt to Jews because heis a promi- nentIsrael booster andhasvisited the Jewish state some 30times. Falwell, whose Sunday sermons at Lynchburg’s Baptist Church Thomas Road are nationally broadcast, said his remarks were “very innocent” and biblically based. “This pretender, whose mission is to deceive the Jews and everyone else into believing he is the true Christ, must resemble the Christ of 2,000 years ago,” Falwell said. “For that reason, many evangelicals believe that he will be Jewish.” Falwell called it “outrageous” that anyone would characterize his remarks as an antisemitic statement. clean the house. That’s his first and most important duty two IOC members contacted by Coates lead their respective NOCs. However, the moneyat the epicenter of Salt Lake’s scandal also Samaranch has vowed to see members guilty of wrongdoing came from an NOC program. expelled. 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