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...Auschwitz death camp and one of the Continent's hottest political properties. In Lisbon, President António Ramalho Eanes abruptly chose as interim Premier Maria de Lourdes Pintassilgo, 49, a chemical engineer and women's rights advocate now serving as Portugal's delegate to UNESCO in Paris...
...Pueblo Indian clowns in the American southwest, contribute a name and a philosophy, that clowning can be both a communal and a moral experience. The performers, both graduates from the School of Education, have both performed internationally, and their collaborative effort, The Mudhead Masks, represented the United States at UNESCO's International Theater Festival in 1977. See some clowning around at the Loeb and also look for The Mudhead Masks at the Cambridge River Festival, the Peabody Museum, Sanders Theater, and the summer school...
...UNESCO delegates drop a threat to curb the news
Leading the conference to a middle ground was UNESCO's director general, Amadou Mahtar M'Bow, of Senegal. He steered his Third World colleagues away from a declaration, originally sponsored by M'Bow himself, intended to counter what they perceive as distorted and inadequate coverage of their affairs (TIME, Nov. 20). The first draft, which sanctioned state control of the press and called for news organizations to publish official replies to "harmful" stories, was replaced by a version ostensibly affirming Western-style press freedoms. Though U.S. delegates would have preferred no declaration, they found the weakened version...
Even if the measure is watered down or pigeonholed, the issue will come up again next year when a UNESCO commission of "wise men" led by former Irish Foreign Minister Sean MacBride completes an exhaustive study on the subject. In addition, the International Telecommunications Union will meet next fall to consider the first redistribution of world radio frequencies in 20 years. The frequencies are now dominated by the West and the Soviets. Third World nations are agitating for a better slice of the spectrum and for the right to block direct satellite broadcasting across national borders...