Munich survivor joins NY minute's silence

A survivor of the Israeli Olympic team massacred at the 1972 Munich games will join officials in New York for a moment of silence Friday. Avi Melamed will join the Israeli Consul General of New York Ido Aharoni and a string of Jewish and local New York officials, a publicist said. The event will coincide with the opening ceremony of the London games, where International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge has declined to hold an official minute's silence in commemoration of the attack 40 years ago. Eleven Israeli athletes and coaches, as well as a West German police officer, were killed during an attack by Palestinian militants at the 1972 Summer Olympics. On Wednesday, the widows of the Israeli victims urged spectators at the London opening to hold an unofficial minute's silence in their memory. Rogge held an impromptu minute's silence when he toured the Athletes' Village in London on Monday, but the widows dismissed the gesture.