Word: unesco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what only looks like the contemporary world; in truth, they move through enchanted old paths out of Ariosto, Spenser and the Arthurian legends. As he takes up the pursuit of Angelica, Persse becomes Percival on the trail of the Grail. For Zapp the quest centers on the newly endowed UNESCO chair in literary criticism, a post that pays $100,000 a year, tax free, and carries no duties whatever...
...last year the U.S. 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...
...loss of U.S. funding, which accounted for 25% of the annual budget, has plunged UNESCO into a financial crisis. To make matters worse, Britain and Singapore have announced that they will pull out at the end of the year. West Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and Denmark have also threatened to withdraw if reforms are not made quickly, and Japan and Canada have hinted they too might leave...
...most immediate effect on UNESCO will be financial: the U.S. contributes 25% of the group's $374 million biennial program budget. That will leave the Soviet Union, which contributes 12% of the budget, as the group's largest backer. Said Ambassador Gerard: "Since some of UNESCO'S most objectionable programs resemble the Soviets' policies, let them pay for them...
Conservative groups hailed the U.S.withdrawal, but some U.N. officials, educators and legislators on Capitol Hill maintained that the U.S. should reform UNESCO from within. Said Republican Congressman Jim Leach of Iowa: "It is difficult to know how U.S. views will be better protected from an empty chair." By this time next year, another chair may be empty. Great Britain last month gave notice that it intends to withdraw from UNESCO...