SAMARANCH PLAYS GRUFF: SAYS REFORMS ONLY AT IOC PACE

          IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch opened the IOC's
     general session in Seoul yesterday by pledging "transparent,
     thorough and effective" reforms of the excesses portrayed
     during the Salt Lake City bribery scandal, according to
     Kevin Sullivan of the WASHINGTON POST.  But Samaranch
     "displayed his characteristic feistiness toward critics who
     say the IOC's reforms will not be complete until Samaranch
     resigns."  Samaranch told the IOC delegates: "We say yes to
     the reforms necessary to consolidate the Olympic movement,
     without renouncing our convictions.  But we say no to hasty
     reforms to please our critics.  No to reforms which defend
     the interests of some at the expense of others.  No to
     reforms based on personal and conflicting interests." 
     Samaranch's remarks were a "thinly veiled response to
     critics, most notably in the U.S. Congress."  Samaranch said
     the IOC has fulfilled its intention to "clean house": "What
     we promised was done" (WASHINGTON POST, 6/17).