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Last week UNESCO's director-general for the past twelve years, Senegal's Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, announced that he will not seek a third term when his mandate ends in November 1987. M'Bow, 65, whose autocratic stewardship has been attacked from both within and without the 158-nation organization, said he would leave "to get UNESCO out of the hurricane zone." The U.S. and Britain promptly announced that they will withhold any reconsideration of their departure until it becomes clear just how far UNESCO will ultimately move. SOVIET UNION A Mountain For Samantha...
Then France's Foreign Minister Roland Dumas delivered a harsh warning to the agency's director general, Amadou Mahtar M'Bow. Dumas said that reforms of the Paris-based organization are "without doubt an indispensable guarantee for the survival of UNESCO. It is now up to the director general to establish a plan and a calendar in order to apply them." The message was significant because France had not only lobbied against U.S. withdrawal from UNESCO late last year but had agreed to contribute an extra $2 million to help make up for the loss of $43 million a year...
...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...
When the U.S. resigned from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 1984, a major reason was the alleged bad management and antidemocratic sentiments of the organization under its director-general, Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow of Senegal. Citing the same reason, Britain left in 1985. Last year M'Bow announced he would not seek a third six-year term, and there was some hope that the U.S. and Britain might rejoin the agency, whose programs have been crippled by the loss of Washington's $48 million annual contribution...
...heart of the controversy is UNESCO's Senegalese Director-General, Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, who took over in 1974. Critics contend that under M'Bow, UNESCO has become anti-Western, citing, among other things, M'Bow's efforts to back groups like the Palestine Liberation Organization and to restrict media coverage of the Third World by creating devices like the so-called new world information order. The U.S. withdrew from UNESCO last year, and other countries have threatened to reconsider membership if changes are not made...