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...year ago the U.S. formally served notice that it would resign from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) unless the Paris-based group streamlined its bloated bureaucracy and righted its anti-Western tilt. Last week, asserting that "an unacceptable gap clearly remains," Washington made good its threat. Gregory Newell, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, announced that the U.S. will withdraw from UNESCO at the end of this month. He said that the U.S. was pulling out because the organization continued to exhibit "an endemic hostility toward the institutions of a free society-particularly those...
...will leave the Paris-based organization at the end of 1985 if certain management and budgetary reforms are not under taken. The decision came after a Cabinet argument in which Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, insisted that Britain take a firmer stand against UNESCO's financial mismanagement and anti-Western bias. Its director-general, Senegal's Amadou Mahtar M'Bow, has annoyed the U.S. and Britain by, among other things, promoting a plan under which UNESCO would set standards for international news reporting. Western news organizations believe that the scheme would...
...Thatcher government denies that the announcement is the result of U.S. pressure. The Prime Minister, said a senior British official, "has been fuming about this for months and didn't need any prodding by anyone." If both the U.S. and Britain pull out, UNESCO will lose nearly 30% of its annual operating budget...
...ongoing battle between the U.S. and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the U.S. employed a tactic last week that one UNESCO official called "psychological warfare." A confidential study by the Congress's General Accounting Office that harshly criticizes UNESCO was leaked to the press. The report charges the agency's Senegalese director, General Amadou Mahtar M'Bow, with large-scale inefficiency and mismanagement. Said M'Bow: "I was elected by all the 161 member states to head the organization . .. and not one of them can force me to hand in my resignation...
...page study, which took six months to prepare, surfaced just one week before UNESCO's executive board was scheduled to discuss the proposals of its Western members for improving the organization. The U.S. has announced it will pull out of the agency at the end of 1984 unless UNESCO changes its ways. The U.S. says UNESCO has a pro-Third World, anti-Western bias. A withdrawal by the U.S., which contributes roughly one-fourth of UNESCO's budget, could lead to financial collapse for the agency...