Word: withdrawals
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...Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) unless the Paris-based group streamlined its bloated bureaucracy and righted its anti-Western tilt. Last week, asserting that "an unacceptable gap clearly remains," Washington made good its threat. Gregory Newell, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, announced that the U.S. will withdraw from UNESCO at the end of this month. He said that the U.S. was pulling out because the organization continued to exhibit "an endemic hostility toward the institutions of a free society-particularly those that protect a free press, free markets and, above all, individual human rights...
While corporations sometimes withdraw advertising to protest articles they do not like, it is rare for a business to close its doors entirely to a news organization. Detroit's automakers, for example, have a selective boycott of television. Since 1980 General Motors executives have refused to grant interviews to reporters from CBS's 60 Minutes or ABC's 20/20 because the networks will not allow the company to edit the videotapes. Ford generally limits interviews with television reporters to brief exchanges. A Ford spokesman claims that when the networks edit a longer interview, "questions and answers...
...Winthrop House seniors this week won an appeal before the Administrative Board, which reversed a decision requiring them to withdraw from the College for setting a fire in their room...
When the U.S. announced its intention late last year to withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at the end of 1984, many foreign diplomats dismissed the move as Reagan Administration isolationism. Now it looks as if the U.S. will not be alone after all. Britain gave notice last week that it will leave the Paris-based organization at the end of 1985 if certain management and budgetary reforms are not under taken. The decision came after a Cabinet argument in which Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, insisted that Britain take...
...parties on the ballot. The veneer of pluralism, however, will be thin. Four of the parties in the race, including the Sandinistas, were Marxist-Leninist in orientation. Of the three non-Communist parties, one, the Independent Liberals, remained on the ballot even though the party leadership had tried to withdraw from the race, charging that the contest was unfair...