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...weeks the 158 member countries of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization had been locked in a battle over choosing a new leader. Senegal's Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, 66, was seeking his third six- year term as UNESCO director-general, despite complaints that his previous stints were characterized by profligate spending and anti-Western bias. The U.S. angrily withdrew from UNESCO in 1984, and Britain pulled out a year later. Last week the organization's executive board chose a compromise candidate, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, 53, a former Spanish Minister for Education and Science and onetime UNESCO deputy...
...departure from the organizing drive clears the way for the local group that rejected UAW parentage in a bitter confrontation in 1985, the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). Last January HUCTW, which has been calling for the UAW to bow out since the split, affiliated with another national parent, the American Federation of State, Country and Municipal Employees (AFSCME...
...pull out, you're a quitter!" But Irving Kristol, a conservative author, urged him to cut his losses and withdraw. Tired of the emotionally draining experience and bitter about his inevitable defeat, Bork slipped into the White House Wednesday afternoon and told the President he was inclined to bow...
...para-publishing phenomenon. Though each undoubtedly thinks of himself as a writer alone with his thoughts and technical problems, they are literary celebrities and, from the vantage of their handlers, basic parts of an entertainment package. And it does not hurt if their editors can tie a bow. "Bright Lights had a winning quality, and it had it in spades, more than any book I have ever read," says Gary Fisketjon, leaving the impression that even casual acquaintance with the novel (a 250- year-old art form) is unnecessary baggage in today's paper chase. Fisketjon, 33, McInerney's close...
Colliding ambitions sent Kim Dae Jung, 63, and Kim Young Sam, 59, the leading lights of the opposition Reunification Democratic Party, ricocheting into their own orbits. Despite earlier promises that one would bow out of the race in favor of the other, negotiations between the rival factions collapsed at a 90-minute breakfast meeting at Seoul's Diplomatic Club. Said Kim Dae Jung: "It became evident that we could not reach an agreement on a single candidate." While party mediators scrambled to bring the Kims together again, both men seemed bent on pursuing their own paths. Unless one gives...