JUAN-ON-JUAN: SAMARANCH WON'T BE SINGING IN THE RAIN

          IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch is interviewed by
     Christopher Clarey of the N.Y. TIMES and discusses Sydney's
     preparation for the Summer Games in September.  Samaranch:
     "The positive aspects of [Sydney] is that they work very
     well.  They work on time.  All the sports facilities were
     ready one year before. ... The bad thing for me regarding
     the Games is that they are in the spring (in the Southern
     Hemisphere).  Spring is not very warm.  It could be cold. 
     We could have rain, and that is, for me, the main problem." 
     Asked how the IOC will "project itself" around Sydney and
     whether the organization will stay in the "finest hotels"
     and drive in "chauffeured cars," Samaranch said, "We will be
     in a hotel, a normal hotel.  I will have my bedroom and a
     living room to meet with the people from the delegations who
     want to see me.  That is what I need. ... We will have a van
     to have some people with me, and we'll see.  Listen, I need
     a car, don't I?  But it will be a van" (N.Y. TIMES, 7/27).