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...pulled out of the Paris-based United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to protest the agency's mismanagement and anti-Western policies. Last week the U.S. was back --not as a member, but as an observer. Despite the opposition of the agency's Senegalese director general, Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, UNESCO's 50-nation executive board voted to admit a U.S. observer mission to the agency. It was only one of several victories for the U.S. at the five-day meeting. The board also rejected a Soviet bid to cut costs by firing UNESCO's 143 American employees...
...pivotal factor in the pullout decision may have been Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, UNESCO'S Senegalese director-general, whose autocratic style made negotiation difficult. In a recent meeting in Paris with Jean Gerard, U.S. Ambassador to UNESCO, M'Bow seemingly accused Gerard of racism, telling her that she could not treat him as she was accustomed to treating Americans "who come from the same continent...
...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...