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...been substituted for English as the first foreign language in Afghan schools. The rudimentary education system which existed in the countryside, where 80 percent of the population lives, has been swept away. Many of Afganistan's ancestral monuments, for example the mosques in Herat (considered as international landmarks by UNESCO) have been seriously damaged by the fighting...
Pointing to recent actions by the Reagan administration such as pulling out of the World Court and UNESCO and threatening to curtail American financial support of the United Nations, Bok said the United States needs to alter its way of dealing with other nations...
...conference of scholars last week in Paris could best be described as unexpected, and perhaps even improbable. The meeting honored the medieval genius Maimonides, one of history's greatest Jewish thinkers, and the host was UNESCO, the troubled United Nations cultural organization, which has upset Jews by frequently denouncing Israel. The World Jewish Congress co-sponsored the gathering, and one of its American leaders, Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, even ventured that the conference might indicate "a reformed UNESCO." Sponsoring nations for UNESCO's Maimonides year, the 850th anniversary of his birth, include Pakistan, India, Cuba and Spain, which refuse to recognize...
...bulletin board at the Paris headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization by disgruntled staffers captured the general mood: "Enough is enough." One reason for the gloom: Britain last week affirmed that it will withdraw at year's end from the 160-member organization. Charging that UNESCO has become "harmfully politicized," Timothy Raison, Minister for Overseas Development, declared before the House of Commons: "We are determined that our support for the United Nations should be seen as support for effective and efficient organizations. Unfortunately, UNESCO is not such a body...
...heart of the controversy is UNESCO's Senegalese Director-General, Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, who took over in 1974. Critics contend that under M'Bow, UNESCO has become anti-Western, citing, among other things, M'Bow's efforts to back groups like the Palestine Liberation Organization and to restrict media coverage of the Third World by creating devices like the so-called new world information order. The U.S. withdrew from UNESCO last year, and other countries have threatened to reconsider membership if changes are not made...