NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS: * Gun Week. Fri. Oct.18; "U.S. Team Blend Of Experience, Youth..." Pictures of Maj. John Foster, Lt. John Writer and Maj. Lones Wigger. Background information on the shooters past performances. * "Olympic Shooting Begins...U.S. Squad Favored In Medal Chase" The U.S. has won 35 gold medals in Olympic shooting competition since the first time in 1896. Many experts picking the U.S. base their opinions on past experiences such as the 1966 World shooting Championships in Wiesbaden, Germany, where the American squad picked up 17 of the 37 gold medals, plus 6 silver and 6 bronze. * The Arizona Republic...Outdoors. Phoenix, Thurs.,Oct. 24, 1968. "Anderson Only Yank Shooter With Gold" Gary Anderson won the gold medal in the Free Rifle event, breaking his own world and Olympic records with a score of 1,157 out of a possible 1,200. * "Arizonan 4th In Gun Match" One bad shot cost an Olympic medal for Army marksman John Foster. He finished 4th yesterday among 50 competitors in the 3-Position 50 meter Smallbore Rifle match. * "Writer Snares Silver Medal In Smallbore" Bernd Klinger of West Germany won the Gold medal in the Smallbore Rifle 3-Position event Monday, scoring 1157. John Writer was second for the silver medal with 1156, Soviet Union was 3rd w/1154 and John Foster 4th w/ 1153. * Gun Week. Fri.,Nov.22. "Shooting in the '68 Olympics....International Shooting Mystery To Many" Photo copy on P.419.2689. Contents of the article is about Int'l competition shooting........ All the world's other countries will almost certainly never switch to the American way of shooting, a hope that some shooters have been harboring. But there is an interesting trend afoot in the councils of the Int'l Shooting Union. The rapid increase in shooting interest among the emerging nations is creating a demand for rules changes that will cut the cost of shooting and simplify procedures so that the poor countries can compete in the Olympics and other matches on a more equal basis with the rich countries. In rifle shooting, there has been pressure to drop the high power three-position match, because it requires more expensive ranges, ammunition and guns than the smallbore "position" match. The Int'l Shooting Union still is trying to make its shooting sports more challenging, but it wants them to be available to more people....etc