Word: ilo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over the past 15 years, however, the postwar spirit of internationalism seems to have waned and given way in this country to something quite different. Our behavior toward international organizations has become less supportive and our voice often petulant and shrill. We have left UNESCO, pulled out of the ILO for a time, rejected the World Court, threatened to leave the FAO, cut our contributions to the World Health Organization and the United Nations itself, and balked at supporting new initiatives by the World Bank...
...inhabitants are foreigners, and foreign visitors total 2 million a year.) Quite aside from the new arms- control conference, there has been a U.N. disarmament conference more or less permanently in session since 1962. Geneva is not only the European headquarters for the U.N. but world headquarters for ILO, WHO, GATT, UNCTAD and the World Intellectual Property Organization.* Also the International Commission of Jurists, the World Meteorological Association and the International Civil Aviation Organization. Not to mention less official institutions such as the World Scout Bureau, the World Council of Churches and the International Council of Osteopaths. Plus foreign business...
...payments to the Paris-based United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) That body had voted in favor of a resolution that cut off UNESCO funding to Israel for altering the historical features" of Jerusalem. In 1977 the Carter Administration withdrew from the U.N.-sponsored International Labor Organization (ILO) in response to that organization's attacks on U.S. policy in the Middle East. Two years later, explaining that the ILO had decided to return to its basic principles, the U S rejoined the Geneva-based body...