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...direct response to UNESCO's Belgrade conference last October. There UNESCO'S 152 member states (now 155) adopted the MacBride Report. That document, which evolved from a three-year global communications study by a panel of experts under former Irish Foreign Minister Sean MacBride, sought to redress Soviet bloc and Third World complaints of "cultural aggression" on the part of the Western-dominated press by empowering UNESCO to "balance" the international flow of in formation. Among the MacBride proposals: standards for news content, new codes of press ethics calling for a definition of the role of the press...
...people. But the increasing strains facing America's elderly do not find fully adaquate explanation in purely economic terms of resource allocation. Many other problems such as stereotyping, segregation, and discrimination reveal more deeply ingrained biases in our youth-oriented society. But President Reagan has promised economic redress, and his plans offer false comfort to his peers. His insidious reordering of American policy towards its senior members will be not only a tragedy for the aged--but also for the ages...
...defensive strength. Any briefing on a comparative basis of our strength and Soviet strength, either in conventional or strategic forces, brings us out, I think, in a very inferior position, and it's very dangerous to stay in an inferior position without trying to do something to redress that balance. We have to do quite a lot and do it quickly, because there is along lead time before you can improve your situation. That's why it's so dangerous to let it get out of balance. Government spending should be reduced on an overall basis. The president is doing...
Noting how infrequently he "appears as a liberal," Rosovsky called affirmative action "the policy of the land and the policy of the University" and stressed the need for the University to redress the shortages of women and minority scholars in certain departments--imbalances he said are "hard to believe" are "statistical accidents...
...loved, Gunhild's twin sister Ella Rentheim (Irene Worth) in order to climb the ladder of success. Dying of an unnamed malady, Ella returns to claim the Borkman's son Erhart (Freddie Lehne), whom she had reared during Borkman's disgrace. Gunhild wants him to redress the family honor. In a bitter confrontation scene, the two sisters drink from the cup oof the past as if it were vitriol...