UNESCO Calls for Sports Boycott of South Africa

A special committee of the United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization called Saturday for a total sports boycott of South Africa.

The Special Committee of Nations United Against Apartheid said internal reform of South Africa was impossible and called for an “end of all collaboration with South Africa in sports as in other areas.”

Among other things, the UNESCO Committee called on American universities to stop giving scholarships to South African athletes who want to compete in the United States.

Don Fehr, acting executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Assn., said that baseball owners’ claims that they are suffering overwhelming financial losses is “an example of voodoo economics.”

Fehr also said he’s more pessimistic about avoiding a strike now than he was earlier in negotiations with the owners. On Thursday, baseball’s owners said that the 26 teams had collectively lost $42 million in 1984 and could lose as much as $155 million by 1988. But Fehr said those figures are “essentially meaningless.”

“There are all kinds of ways to show losses,” he said. “A team bought for $50 million can show $9 million in losses each year by depreciating its players. If just a few clubs are taking that depreciation, it turns the numbers from red to black.”

Norman Whiteside scored with 10 minutes left in overtime to break a scoreless tie and lift short-handed Manchester United over Everton, 1-0, in the English FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium.

United defender Kevin Moran was ejected at the 78th minute after upending Peter Reid and forced Manchester United to play with only 10 men. Moran became the first player ever to be sent off in a Wembley Cup Final.

Triptych made horse racing history at the Curragh, Ireland, by becoming the first filly to win the Irish 2,000 Guineas.

The Bluebonnet Bowl has decided to end a 17-year association with the Astrodome and return its New Year’s Eve game to Rice Stadium in Houston, where the first game was played in 1959.

Life’s Magic, last year’s filly champion, scored her first victory of 1985, besting favored Heatherten by two lengths in the $172,000 Shuvee Handicap for fillies and mares at Belmont Park in New York.

Michele Mitchell set an American record in women’s platform diving, but that wasn’t enough to keep the Chinese from taking a 22-21 lead in the McDonald’s USA vs. China diving competition at Orlando, Fla.

Olympic cyclist Thurlow Rogers of Van Nuys pulled away from Steve Speaks on a short, steep hill near the finishand won the Lowenbrau Redmond bicycle race at Redmond, Wash.

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Terry Labonte was the top qualifier and claimed the pole position for today’s NASCAR Grand National Budweiser 500 stock car race at Dover Downs International Speedway in Dover, Del.

Brazil’s Ayrton Senna in a Lotus-Renault won his third straight pole position in final qualifying for today’s 43rd Monaco Grand Prix at Monte Carlo.

Veteran pitcher Larry Gura, twice an 18-game winner, was waived by the Kansas City Royals.