
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, March 26, 1991                   TAG: 9103260211
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: From Associated Press reports
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OLYMPIC PANEL VISITS S. AFRICA

Delegates from the International Olympic Committee said Monday that President F.W. de Klerk of South Africa assured them all apartheid laws would be scrapped by the end of June.

De Klerk held more than an hour of talks in Cape Town, South Africa, with the delegates, hoping to persuade them to support his nation's return to the world's premier sporting event. The IOC Commission on Apartheid and Olympism arrived Saturday to decide if South Africa's 1970 suspension from the IOC and participation in the Olympic Games should be lifted.

Both sides described the talks as "constructive."

IOC director-general Francois Carrard stressed that the IOC delegates had not made a decision on South Africa's readmission but were "reasonably optimistic" about reaching some agreement by the time they leave Wednesday.

by CNB