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...threatens press freedom as Americans and Europeans conceive it. Next round in the conflict will come this month in Belgrade, when the new order will be debated by 151 nations belonging to the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Focus of the debate will be a report prepared by UNESCO's International Commission for the Study of Communication Problems. That 16-member body, which included representatives from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan, the Soviet Union and Third World states, was set up three years ago under the chairmanship of former Irish Foreign Minister Seán MacBride...
...litany of grievances that will be recited once more at Belgrade. Again, the Western press will be accused of "cultural aggression" against Third World countries, of perpetuating a "monopoly" of the news flow, of "distorting" the Third World's staggering problems of development. In Third World coverage, claims UNESCO's Senegal-born director-general, Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Western editors favor negative over positive, excitement over substance: "Their attention is more easily drawn to sensational disasters or to the witticisms of some publicity-seeking leader than to the desperate efforts of whole peoples to escape from...
Hector Wilfred ("Harry") Jayawardene, 63, brother of Sri Lanka President Junius Richard Jayawardene, is chairman of the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, an organization that promotes democracy and protection of human rights. In 1979 he was chairman of a UNESCO conference on human rights in Bangkok. Educated at the Royal College in Colombo and Ceylon Law College, he has been an attorney since 1941, and became one of the youngest men named to the prestigious position of Queen's Counsel. Jayawardene is a devout Buddhist and an ardent supporter of wildlife conservation...
Louis-Edmond Pettiti, 64, the son of a Paris restaurant waiter, has been a champion of human rights ever since he passed the Paris bar at the age of 19. Founder of the Institute for Training in Human Rights, sponsored by the Paris bar and UNESCO, Pettiti was appointed to the French seat on the 20-judge European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg last year. He has counseled some celebrated East European dissidents: Anatoli Shcharansky, whose 1978 Moscow trial for "treason" he was forbidden to attend, and Czechoslovak Playwright Vaclav Havel, who was convicted of "subversion...
...only institution seemingly left undamaged by the Khmer Rouge is the Antiquities Museum, with its collection of precious artifacts, the Chamcar Mon Palace, which Heng Samrin uses as headquarters, and the graceful Samarki (Solidarity) Hotel, formerly the Phnom, temporary home of teams from CARE, OXFAM and UNESCO. The unused swimming pool is filled with dirty water, prompting speculation that it has not been changed since the days of Lon Nol. It was never changed then either. The hotel bar, the only one functioning in town, can occasionally come up with a bottle of "33" beer imported from Viet...