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- <text id=89TT2161>
- <title>
- Aug. 21, 1989: World Notes:Britain
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Aug. 21, 1989 How Bush Decides
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 38
- World Notes
- BRITAIN
- Cricket by Checkbook
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Sports-mad South Africans have been desperate for
- world-class competition since international sporting bodies
- began banning them 25 years ago and vowed not to readmit them
- until apartheid was abolished. With the news two weeks ago that
- a "rebel" English cricket team would play two tours in South
- Africa, most of the country's whites rejoiced.
- </p>
- <p> Elsewhere, the reaction was outrage. Britain's
- antiapartheid movement demanded that the rebel players be banned
- forever. Sports Minister Colin Moynihan advised them not to go,
- and Tanzanian Foreign Minister Benjamin Mkapa warned that
- African nations might boycott the 1990 Commonwealth Games.
- </p>
- <p> Under heavy pressure, the two black members of the 16-man
- squad pulled out. The others, led by captain Mike Gatting, seem
- intent on going, no doubt spurred by fees of up to $160,000
- reportedly offered by the South African Cricket Union.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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