All Good as Gold, Reagan Tells U.S. Olympic Team : ‘A Changing Relationship’ : U.S., Soviets Build Trust as Missiles Are Destroyed

--Even though they did not all come home with medals, all the members of the U.S. Summer Olympic team were winners, in the words of President Reagan. “I believe people who go out and give their all in fair, competitive sport are winners,” Reagan said as he welcomed the team to the White House. “In Seoul, we claimed 94 medals and 611 winners.” The ceremony coincided with the start of what Reagan has designated “Drug-Free America Week.” “Not relying on drugs or banned substances, you set a fine example for the youth of America,” he said. No mention was made of drug scandals involving other athletes who competed in Seoul. After track star Florence Griffith Joyner presented Reagan with a cowboy hat festooned with Olympic pins, the President looked ahead to the 1992 games and said: “Look out, world, because the United States is going for the gold again!”

--Presidential candidate Johnny Russell offers a solution to the nation’s budget deficit. The Grand Ole Opry star received the tongue-in-cheek nomination for President from more than 400 friends and fans at a Nashville nightclub. “Each Friday,” he pledged, “we will have a yard sale in the Rose Garden. Get rid of some of that old furniture, some of those old pictures of those old presidents, and hang some new snapshots.” Singer-humorist Russell is best known for writing “Act Naturally” and his hit song “Red Necks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer.”

--It was like old times in Cocoa Beach, Fla., as shuttle Discovery astronauts rode in Corvettes once driven by Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, Alan B. Shepard Jr. and other U.S. space pioneers for a nostalgic parade. The hourlong procession from Patrick Air Force Base to Cocoa Beach was thought to be the first such area tribute since a motorcade for the crew of the Apollo 10 moon mission in 1969. Discovery crew members Frederick H. Hauck, Richard O. Covey, John M. Lounge, David C. Hilmers and George D. Nelson waved as their cars moved along a 3-mile oceanside route lined with well-wishers. It was the crew’s first visit to Florida since Sept. 29, when the shuttle blasted off from nearby Kennedy Space Center.