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...Carthage. Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba located his new official residence there, and some 60 high-ranking diplomats live near by. Hundreds of seaside villas have been built on the still unexcavated ruins that lie about 20 feet below the surface. Says Georges Fradier, a Frenchman who heads UNESCO'S "Save Carthage" mission in Tunis: "If the building boom goes on, Carthage will be really destroyed-this time for good. Nobody is going to demolish a new city in order to dig up an old city...
...jewelry was sold out on the first day. Bottlenecks in the museum caused three-block queues outside it. The museum hopes that when the exhibit closes six months hence, 1.5 million people will have seen it. That would net about $1.3 million, most of it earmarked for a UNESCO fund to restore the temples on the island of Philae in Egypt, now submerged in the Nile by the Aswan High...
Candle Radio. As Papanek sees it, designers should turn to the problems of the "real world," particularly the problems of the world's poor. He and one of his students have designed a simple radio that is being manufactured in Indonesia as a cottage industry under UNESCO sponsorship. Powered by heat rising from a candle, the radio looks ugly but costs only 90, com plete with an earplug. In Africa, Papanek and another student sought a cheap means of preserving food. Their solution: a "cooling unit" insulated by walls of native fiber. It works for twelve hours...
...specialized agencies such as the World Health Organization and the International Telecommunications Union. "I believe," Chi concluded briskly, that the expulsion "will be speedily implemented in its entirety." He is almost certainly right. Though the agencies act on their own, they usually follow the General Assembly's lead. Thus UNESCO (the Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) moved swiftly at its Paris headquarters to give Taipei the boot by a 25-to-2 margin with five abstentions. Only the U.S. and Brazil resisted the tide...
Incarnate Goals. The "postponement" ripped apart a carefully woven fabric of international cultural cooperation that had survived many other political and ideological shocks. For its part, Egypt lost the admission charges that U.S. museums had been prepared to donate to a UNESCO project for rescuing the temples of Philae from inundation by the waters of the Aswan High Dam. But the chief losers were U.S. art lovers. Among the masterpieces they had been about to see were many that had never before left Egypt...