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Seagren only two months earlier, did not clear a height in the qualifying round and was eliminated, leaving the stadium in disgust afterwards. After Seagren’s last vault, he was so incensed by the way that IAAF officials had handled the event that he took the pole he had been forced to vault with,
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was head of a four men delegation. During these talks Jan de Quay, head of the delegation of the
Nederlandse Unie, called himself a fascist, the Nederlandse Unie a fascistic organisation and said that he opposed democracy. The fusion talks failed.
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Nederlandse Unie and Nationaal Front, August 1940, Archive of Zwart Front, Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands.
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as IAAF President in 1976 and served in that position until 1981. During Paulen's tenure, he led the fight to control
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