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...license-granting countries agree. Since doctors and lawyers must get their credentials certified, they argue, that requirement should be extended to professional journalists. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has debated licensing as a way to protect journalists operating in such dangerous circumstances as wars and riots. UNESCO has even considered issuing internationally recognized press cards that would identify journalists in hazardous areas. But after acknowledging the threat to press freedom inherent in any licensing scheme, the U.N. agency has repeatedly rejected all such proposals...
...moved to distance itself from the world body. In the past year, the U.S. has threatened to slash its hefty contribution to the U.N.'s budget unless it gains more control over how the money is spent, has dropped out of the U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and has refused to submit to the jurisdiction of another U.N. offshoot, the International Court of Justice. Last week the White House almost canceled President Reagan's speaking engagement at the U.N., scheduled for this Thursday, after some Third World nations demanded that Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat be invited...
...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...