Word: mahtar
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...reforms are not under taken. The decision came after a Cabinet argument in which Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, insisted that Britain take a firmer stand against UNESCO's financial mismanagement and anti-Western bias. Its director-general, Senegal's Amadou Mahtar M'Bow, has annoyed the U.S. and Britain by, among other things, promoting a plan under which UNESCO would set standards for international news reporting. Western news organizations believe that the scheme would lead to increased state control of the press...
...Scientific and Cultural Organization, the U.S. employed a tactic last week that one UNESCO official called "psychological warfare." A confidential study by the Congress's General Accounting Office that harshly criticizes UNESCO was leaked to the press. The report charges the agency's Senegalese director, General Amadou Mahtar M'Bow, with large-scale inefficiency and mismanagement. Said M'Bow: "I was elected by all the 161 member states to head the organization . .. and not one of them can force me to hand in my resignation...
...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 parts of the building. Those blazes were contained, and there were no injuries. After determining that large quantities of a flammable liquid had been splashed on walls throughout the building and finding several unused crude paper torches, investigators quickly blamed the fires on arsonists. UNESCO Director-General Amadou Mahtar M'Bow of Senegal called for a full investigation of what he termed "a criminal act." Said he: "I am asking everyone to do all they can so that we can find out the reasons for the fire and the identities of the person or persons at the root...
...Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and Richard Ahern, deputy chief of the U.S. delegation, left the U.S. mission in Paris for a short limousine ride to UNESCO's concrete-and-glass headquarters. They took an elevator to the fifth floor, where UNESCO'S Senegalese Director-General, Amadou Mahtar M'Bow, has his office. There they gave him a three-page letter, typed on U.S. delegation stationery. M'Bow barely glanced at it. "I will read this with great interest," he said, smiling stiffly. Gerard and Ahern turned and left...