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USOC SPENT MONEY IN AFRICA AND ASIA TO HELP SALT LAKE BID

          The USOC "directed more than $60,000 to support sports
     in Africa and Asia in hopes of currying favor" for Salt Lake
     City's bid for the 2002 Winter Games, according to Alan
     Abrahamson of the L.A. TIMES, who cited an internal USOC
     report.  The report "reveals publicly for the first time"
     that the USOC "underwrote training costs and supplies for
     athletes and coaches" in Sudan, Mali, Uganda and Turkey,
     which officials believed supported Salt Lake City's bid for
     the 2002 Games.  The report also says that the committee
     distributed "pocket money" monthly to three Sudanese
     athletes and a coach over a four-month span in '95.  The
     report was "prepared" in February by the law firm of Hogan &
     Hartson and "turned over" Friday to congressional
     investigators "after months of resistance" (L.A. TIMES,
     11/14).  The AP's Matt Kelley called the report "the most
     detailed accounting yet of the USOC's involvement" in the
     Salt Lake bid scandal and wrote that it "faults the USOC for
     lax oversight of not only Utah organizers but its employees
     and volunteers." USOC Dir of Public Affairs Mike Moran: "Our
     view of what happened was, it was our own lack of oversight,
     which we've taken great pains to correct" (AP, 11/14).

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