A house joint resolution to request that the International Olympics Committee hold the 1980 Summer Olympic Games at a site other than within the Soviet Union, with assurance of United States financial assistance for the change of venue, and failing the relocation, to urge the United States Olympic Committee to withdraw from participation in the 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow and to assist in the creation of a "Free World Olympics" at suitable site.

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Requests the President to ask the International Olympic Committee to transfer the 1980 summer Olympic games from the Soviet Union. Directs the President to: (1) ask the U.S. Olympic Committee to boycott such games if they are not transferred; (2) encourage other nations to do the same; and (3) assist in the organization of a "Free World Olympics."

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 17 January 1980

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