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...UNESCO is trying to raise $15 million to save the ruin (Greece has already pledged $5 million of the total). To launch the fund-raising drive, UNESCO's director-general, the Senegalese classicist and art historian Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, climbed the Acropolis and issued a warning. "After resisting the onslaughts of weather and human assailants for 2,400 years," he cried, "this magnificent monument, on which Ictinus and Phidias left the imprint of their genius, is threatened with destruction as a result of the damage which industrial civilization has increasingly inflicted...
...RECENT DECISION by the United Nations Economic, Social, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to change the voting procedure on membership in order to enable Israel to be readmitted to the European regional group is both welcome and long overdue. The 1974 vote to exclude Israel from that group, and thereby from participation of any kind in UNESCO, was based on dishonest premises and represented nothing less than another attempt to delegitimize Israel by forces opposed to the very existence of the state. Their contention at the time that Israeli archeological excavations in East Jerusalem were being carried out without regard...
...unfortunate that it took the body of the UNESCO member states so long to come to their senses. But it was rewarding and encouraging to see intellectuals throughout the world, and especially those in France and the United States, protest and condemn the original decision. The efforts of many in the Harvard community, most notably Kenneth J. Arrow, University Professor, were consistent and noteworthy; and they should derive a strong sense of satisfaction from the righting of the wrong committed...
This resolution prohibited Israel from participating in their own regional group of UNESCO, and since all of UNESCO's business is done in regional groups, this in effect barred Israel from involvement in UNESCO, Landes said yesterday...
Landes said he and many of the other delegates will boycott UNESCO functions as a matter of conscience "until the politicization of a supposedly neutral organization is halted...