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Among his best-known works are the UNESCO World Headquarters in Paris, the Whitney Museum in New York City, the headquarters of the federal departments of Health and Human Services and Housing and Urban Development is Washington...
Western newsmen mount an angry challenge to UNESCO curbs...
...time they ended their two-day session, the conferees had issued a toughly worded Declaration of Talloires. While pledging "cooperation in all genuine efforts to expand the free flow of information," they promised "concerted action" to uphold the "basic human right" of press freedom and called on UNESCO "to abandon attempts to regulate news content and formulate rules for the press...
...Talloires meeting, sponsored by the World Press Freedom Committee, an international watchdog group, was a direct response to UNESCO's Belgrade conference last October. There UNESCO'S 152 member states (now 155) adopted the MacBride Report. That document, which evolved from a three-year global communications study by a panel of experts under former Irish Foreign Minister Sean MacBride, sought to redress Soviet bloc and Third World complaints of "cultural aggression" on the part of the Western-dominated press by empowering UNESCO to "balance" the international flow of in formation. Among the MacBride proposals: standards for news content...
...battle at Talloires developed into such an explosive confrontation between delegates and their guest speaker, UNESCO Director-General Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, that his interpreter was unable to keep up with the angry exchanges. UNESCO'S press curbs, said Cushrow Irani, chairman of the International Press Institute and publisher of The Statesman of Calcutta, would "transform the press into an instrument of governments." British Journalist and Author Rosemary Righter (Whose News?) reminded the director-general that he had once said the press should be responsible "for promoting cohesion and integration" in Third World nations...