OLYMPIC NOTES

          SAMARANCH-POUND FEUD? IOC President Juan Antonio
     Samaranch "refuted suggestions of a rift" with IOC VP Dick
     Pound.  Samaranch: "He has my full confidence.  I respect him
     very much."  Samaranch also "moved to dispel rumors" of an
     internal coup against him and "reiterated that he intends to
     complete" the final two years of his term.  Samaranch: "I am
     not leaving.  I will stay until 2001 if I am healthy enough." 
     (Stephen Wilson, AP, 6/16)....In Toronto, James Christie
     writes that it "may come back to haunt" Pound "that he was a
     strident defender" of Phil Coles (GLOBE & MAIL, 6/16).  A
     DESERET NEWS editorial criticizes the IOC for allowing Coles
     to remain on the committee, "The IOC, the body that oversees
     the Olympics on a grand scale, doesn't get it.  This apparent
     lack of accountability is troubling" (DESERET NEWS, 6/15).