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...UNITED NATIONS Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization was wrong to exclude Israel from its regional groupings, and the Harvard professors who signed an advertisement attacking UNESCO in yesterday's Crimson are right in opposing the move...
...possible to imagine cases in which UNESCO would be right to exclude a government from its activities--a government whose public activities seemed to clearly exclude the promotion of culture, science and education. Lots of governments that might fit this categorization are in UNESCO now--Libya and the Soviet Union, both of which supported Israel's expulsion, are among them--but it would be absurd to argue that Israel, despite its repression of political activities in the territories it occupies, is a prime offender...
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO...
...ludicrous snub led by a bloc of Arab and Communist states, UNESCO voted last week to bar Israel from participation in the organization's European regional group. The group charged that Israel, in the process of developing Jerusalem, had failed to protect certain historical sites. *A reference to the mountaintop fortress of Masada, where 960 Jews committed suicide in A.D. 73 rather than surrender to their enemies, the Romans...
...sinister enemy of democracy and international peace. After becoming Minister of Education in 1943, he launched a mammoth literacy campaign that in its first two years taught more than a million Mexicans to read and write. Named head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1948, he resigned four years later, arguing that a budget cut imperiled the agency's drive for social progress. Suffering from cancer of the prostate, he wrote in a suicide note: "I prefer to call on death myself at the right time...