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WASHINGTON — Former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale, who played a key role in the U.S. boycott of the 1980 summer Olympics in Moscow, isn’t joining those who are urging President Bush to skip the opening ceremony at the Beijing Olympics. Instead, Mondale called on the U.S. to take an active role in getting the Chinese government to speak with the Dalai Lama about the situation in Tibet.

“What is happening in Tibet is bad, really bad,” Mondale said Monday. “The Dalai Lama is making a very modest demand — and that is they be allowed some sort of cultural independence and some survivability as a people.”