Word: unesco
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...name of "protecting" journalists and improving coverage but would include government-enforced codes of conduct for news organizations, curbs on access to news sources and the licensing of reporters. Such ideas are expected to be raised again by Soviet and many Third World delegates next month at a UNESCO conference in Paris. The Western press is fighting back: last week representatives of 60 print and broadcast organizations from 25 countries, meeting at the Alpine resort of Talloires, France, agreed to condemn all "attempts to regulate news content and formulate rules for the press...
...World by David Hare. More games, of the highest, most perplexing order. In 1976, at a UNESCO congress in Bombay, wealthy nations trade with poor ones: our money for your dignity. Soon another contest is under way. Victor Mehta (Roshan Seth), an Indian novelist similar to V.S. Naipaul, debates Stephen Andrews (Bill Nighy), a young left-wing journalist, on the subject of an author's responsibility to the Third World objects of his satire. The prize: a pretty American actress, Peggy Whitton (Diana Quick). Believe who will. Why would a novelist of declared hostility to the "barbarians" be invited...
...France is the Soviet embassy, a neo-Stalinist white marble bunker located near the Bois de Boulogne. The KGB also operates out of the ambassador's downtown residence, the trade mission, the consulate, Aeroflot offices, the TASS news agency and through Soviet delegations to international organizations like UNESCO...
Citing a 1974 UNESCO charge that Israeli policy and actions concerning education were "paralyzing Palestinian culture," the petition stated that "military control over Palestinian education is totally incompatible with academic freedom...
...reconstruction took a decade of effort and cost $25 million. Located 30 miles from the Javanese city of Jogjakarta, Borobudur is eventually expected to attract several million visitors a year. At this week's ceremony, Indonesian officials, as well as representatives of UNESCO and 28 contributing na tions and corporations, will gather at the temple for the local equivalent of a ribbon cutting. Even if the donors do not achieve nirvana as they climb Borobudur's refurbished steps, they can take pride in setting an example for all the world to emulate in the care of a noble...