Wismoyo awed by Americans

Wismoyo awed by Americans

JAKARTA (JP): National Sports Council (KONI) chairman Wismoyo
Arismunandar returned here on Tuesday from the United States,
where he was granted on Friday an honorary doctorate from the
U.S. Sport Academy, in Alabama, for his leadership and good
management of national sports.

Wismoyo said he was amazed that American people respected
people from different nations.

"I feel that Americans still have respect for Indonesians. For
them, dignity is above all things. Everybody there showed
appreciation of others.

"When I talked to them, they listened carefully. When I
delivered my speech during the conferring ceremony, they
attentively listened to my speech," he said at the Soekarno-Hatta
international airport.

The academy's rector, Thomas Rossandich, conferred the title
to Wismoyo along with three others, president of the
International Olympic Committee Juan Antonio Samaranch, former
Russian president Mikhail Gorbachev and former U.S. President
Ronald Reagan. (ivy)