Olympic Outlook: Not So Peachy

By DAVID ELLIS/

Atlanta, which was euphoric over its selection as the site of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games, is suffering some early dissension with disturbing racial undertones. The organizing committee's scheme to build a water-polo pool and a field-hockey stadium on the campus of all-black Atlanta University has been frowned on by some members of the Action Forum, a group of black civic leaders. They call the plans "totally unacceptable" because school authorities were not consulted. Declared James Costen, president of the Interdenominational Theological Center: "As usual, we are being planned for rather than planned with."

With reporting by DANIEL S. LEVY