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- PEOPLE, Page 64No G'Day for Magic
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- BY MICHAEL QUINN
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- Basketball's Magic Johnson became a sudden symbol of the
- battle against AIDS when he revealed that he has the HIV virus.
- Now he is getting a crash course in the prejudice resulting
- from such honesty. Dr. Brian Sando, medical chief of
- Australia's Olympic basketball team, suggested last week that
- Aussie players boycott games against the Americans if Magic was
- among them. Sando's quackish excuse: Johnson could pass the
- virus to other athletes. Dave Gavitt, president of U.S.A.
- Basketball, insisted "Magic Johnson's eligibility for the 1992
- Olympic Games is not in question." But no need to throw another
- bigot on the barbie: Australian Olympic officials decreed there
- would be no boycott. Elsewhere, Johnson's name remained magic.
- He handily qualified for a spot in February's All-Star game. And
- he is one of the famous faces in Michael Jackson's new video,
- Remember the Time, to be released next week.
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