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...need to harmonize "the values of science with the values of conscience." To many Pope watchers, it was far more powerful than his two previous major speeches as a world statesman, one to the United Nations General Assembly during his American tour in 1979, the other at UNESCO headquarters in Paris last year. "Humanity must make a moral about-face," the Pope said. "From now on it is only through a conscious choice . . . that humanity can survive." He warned against "technological development for its own sake" and "nonstop economic expansion" that leaves the poor behind...
...Western European delegates objected vehemently to the idea that UNESCO ought to establish standards for news operations. The U.S. representative, Stanford University Professor Elie Abel, told the conference that UNESCO should not become "an international nanny." Nonetheless, UNESCO Director General Amadou Mahtar M'Bow of Senegal was authorized to begin "promptly" studying "basic principles" for a new order...
Also approved were several controversial UNESCO research projects on the press, including studies into advertising and media financing, codes of press ethics and measures to "protect" journalists, a euphemism for licensing them. Those undertakings are favored by advocates of the new order but are seen by critics as threats to press freedom...
...long and sometimes bitter negotiations in Belgrade, U.S. and European representatives successfully stood their ground on two important points. One involved funding and control of UNESCO's newly established International Program for the Development of Communication. This organization will help channel Western communications assistance (both governmental and private) in the communications field to Third World countries. In a compromise resolution on UNESCO's much debated MacBride report-a global communications study by a panel of experts under the chairmanship of former Irish Prime Minister Sean MacBride-the West also fought off Third World attempts to exploit the report...
...finds an obviously bad egg on his plate. When the bishop offers to replace it, the curate, trying not to offend his host, protests: "Oh no, my lord. I do assure you, it is excellent in parts." The Western press may likewise find the new information order, as UNESCO seems likely to serve it up, good only in parts-and hence unpalatable as a whole...