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From this international attitude arose such organizations as UNESCO and the Non-Aligned Nations Conferences, amid various calls for a "New World Economic Order." This new order would supposedly redress the imbalance of wealth between the developed industrial nations and the Lesser Developed Countries (LDC's), but has instead led to the present tenuous situation...
...journalists were pursuing strategies that grew out of a similar conference at Talloires two years ago. With the help of Western governments-led by the U.S., which threatened to withdraw its 25% share of UNESCO's budget-the 1981 conferees succeeded in getting the U.N. agency to defer major antipress proposals. Diplomats predicted that the second Talloires session would reinforce the journalists' counterattack: it drew 83 participants, vs. 63 in 1981, and included news organizations from the U.S., most of Western Europe, Japan and countries as diverse as Finland, India and Peru. Said Jean Gerard, U.S. Ambassador...
...name of "protecting" journalists and improving coverage but would include government-enforced codes of conduct for news organizations, curbs on access to news sources and the licensing of reporters. Such ideas are expected to be raised again by Soviet and many Third World delegates next month at a UNESCO conference in Paris. The Western press is fighting back: last week representatives of 60 print and broadcast organizations from 25 countries, meeting at the Alpine resort of Talloires, France, agreed to condemn all "attempts to regulate news content and formulate rules for the press...
...World by David Hare. More games, of the highest, most perplexing order. In 1976, at a UNESCO congress in Bombay, wealthy nations trade with poor ones: our money for your dignity. Soon another contest is under way. Victor Mehta (Roshan Seth), an Indian novelist similar to V.S. Naipaul, debates Stephen Andrews (Bill Nighy), a young left-wing journalist, on the subject of an author's responsibility to the Third World objects of his satire. The prize: a pretty American actress, Peggy Whitton (Diana Quick). Believe who will. Why would a novelist of declared hostility to the "barbarians" be invited...
...France is the Soviet embassy, a neo-Stalinist white marble bunker located near the Bois de Boulogne. The KGB also operates out of the ambassador's downtown residence, the trade mission, the consulate, Aeroflot offices, the TASS news agency and through Soviet delegations to international organizations like UNESCO...