21.   Kuwait has threatened to boycott the games if Iraq participates.

22.   Kuwait had threatened to boycott the games if Jordan allowed Iraqi athletes to compete.

23.   Last month Kuwait threatened to boycott the games if Jordan allowed Iraqi athletes to compete.

24.   Last month, Kuwait said it would boycott the games if Iraq participated and expressed hope that Jordan, as host, would not allow Iraqi athletes to compete.

25.   Last week a delegation of sports officials from French Polynesia began a tour of Pacific nations to persuade them not to boycott the games.

26.   Media reports had said earlier that Iran would boycott the games.

27.   Saudi sports officials also were quoted Friday in Jordanian newspapers as saying the kingdom, too, would boycott the games.

28.   She would not have gone to Moscow anyway because the United States announced soon after its selection trials that it was boycotting the games.

29.   Some Yugoslav soccer stars across Europe have been thinking of boycotting games to protest NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia.

30.   The Asahi network bought the rights to the Moscow Winter Olympics that year and was burned when Japan and the United States boycotted the games, he said.