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WORLD, Page 38World NotesBRITAINCricket by Checkbook
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.
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.
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.