Word: mahtar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle at Talloires developed into such an explosive confrontation between delegates and their guest speaker, UNESCO Director-General Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, that his interpreter was unable to keep up with the angry exchanges. UNESCO'S press curbs, said Cushrow Irani, chairman of the International Press Institute and publisher of The Statesman of Calcutta, would "transform the press into an instrument of governments." British Journalist and Author Rosemary Righter (Whose News?) reminded the director-general that he had once said the press should be responsible "for promoting cohesion and integration" in Third World nations...
...Western European delegates objected vehemently to the idea that UNESCO ought to establish standards for news operations. The U.S. representative, Stanford University Professor Elie Abel, told the conference that UNESCO should not become "an international nanny." Nonetheless, UNESCO Director General Amadou Mahtar M'Bow of Senegal was authorized to begin "promptly" studying "basic principles" for a new order...
...more at Belgrade. Again, the Western press will be accused of "cultural aggression" against Third World countries, of perpetuating a "monopoly" of the news flow, of "distorting" the Third World's staggering problems of development. In Third World coverage, claims UNESCO's Senegal-born director-general, Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Western editors favor negative over positive, excitement over substance: "Their attention is more easily drawn to sensational disasters or to the witticisms of some publicity-seeking leader than to the desperate efforts of whole peoples to escape from the crushing poverty that afflicts so many of them...