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Suspicious fires at UNESCO...
...timing is truly everything, a series of fires at the Paris headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) last week was right on schedule. Relations between the U.N. agency and the U.S. have deteriorated steadily over what the U.S. has felt to be a consistent anti-Western bias on UNESCO's part. Citing waste, mismanagement and abuse of UNESCO's $374.4 million budget, 25% of which the U.S. provides, President Reagan announced in December that the U.S. would pull out of the agency by the end of this year unless UNESCO's performance...
...voice for children, such as reforming IRS Tax Exemption laws to enable groups to spend more time and funds on legislative activities. He lobbies for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54's proposed 2.5 billion food stamp and child nutrition program; and he urges the United States to stay in UNESCO, an international organization which provides massive food, educational, and development aid to underdeveloped countries to "assist the world's children...
...global anti Semitism bolds the least water. The condition of Arab states and third World nations, bullied by the former's oil, plus the members of the Eastern bloc can steamroll any anti-Israel bill through the United Nations General Assembly and many affiliated organizations such as UNESCO...
...withdrawal from UNESCO is reminiscent of the sandlot-baseball chant: "If I can't pitch, I won't play...