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...fast, said UNESCO Director-General Amadou Mahtar M'Bow of Senegal. Reason: the U.S. has announced that it will pull out of UNESCO after 1984 unless the agency renounces its anti-Western bias, including support for a "new world information order" that could muzzle journalists. A U.S. pullout would deprive UNESCO of about $43 million annually, roughly 25% of its budget. Aides to M'Bow told other members that UNESCO might not pay back the currency-cushion funds until 1985-and then only to nations that are paid-up UNESCO members. Snapped one member of the U.S. delegation...
Other critics believe the Continental rescue proves that the FDIC has a big-bank bias. Said Democratic Senator David Boren of Oklahoma: "The result of FDIC policy seems to encourage concentration of banking in a few large institutions and requires discipline only of small banks. Oklahomans are justifiably bitter about this double standard, especially when the collapse of Penn Square Bank doubled the state's bankruptcy rate...
...level-and people are able to cling to prejudice more easily in the abstract. With a real live female candidate stumping the country and getting incessant public attention between now and November, one who is unafraid of seeming both feminine and strong, a lot of half-baked, half-conscious bias should slough away. "Kennedy proved that Catholics had finally arrived in American society, that they could win any office, run any corporation, achieve any social position," says Stuart Eizenstat, a Presidential Adviser in the Carter Administration. "This shows that women are now full-fledged and equal members of society, that...
...federal bench in 1966. He has been a hero to environmentalists since the mid-'70s, when he presided over a case involving charges that the Reserve Mining Co. had been polluting Lake Superior. Lord was eventually removed from that case after a higher court accused him of "gross bias" against the company. In another case that had ecologists cheering, the judge refused to permit a trapping season for Minnesota's Eastern timber wolf; the decision caused considerable upset among farmers, who maintained that the wild predators were killing their livestock...
...National Endowment for the Humanities, which provided $1.3 million to the $4.6 million series, received 300 letters alleging distortion. So when Accuracy in Media, a group dedicated to liberal bias, suggested a rebuttal show, NEH Chairman William Bennett awarded a start-up grant of $30,000, despite disagreement among his top aides. Explained Bennett: "It seemed only reasonable to answer some of the questions raised." According to A.I.M. Chairman Reed Irvine, the reply, to be offered to PBS stations, will show up "errors and omissions" in the series' coverage of Vietnamese history and the life of Ho Chi Minh...