Honoring Slain Athletes

Re “Haunted by Memories of Munich ‘72,” Feb. 8: To believe the statement by Toni Khoury of the IOC executive board that to “honor the slain Israelis at the ceremony would be an unwelcome political intrusion” is to believe that the killing of all of the Israeli athletes was a “political” act. It was not. It was a criminal act. To treat it otherwise is to encourage and condone terrorist behavior.

It is the world’s (and thus the IOC’s) duty to treat victims of terrorist acts as heroes and not worry about the countries that house the terrorists who perform such criminal acts.

Phyllis Katzman Tolidano

Sherman Oaks

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Eleven members of the Olympic family were brutally murdered at the ’72 Summer Games. The failure of the Olympics to memorialize their deaths at every Summer and Winter Games announces to all the world: Evil has prevailed.

Stephen H. Tabor

Los Angeles