U.S. Return to UNESCO Gets Mixed ReviewsThe U.S. government...rejoin(ed) UNESCO (in October 2003) after withdrawing in 1984..."Reagan's decision to leave UNESCO was based on the idea that it acted under communist influence,” says John Washburn, a former U.S. diplomat, and director of the U.S. Association for the United Nations.
...The main UNESCO debates at the time were focused on the New World Information Order and the New World Economic Order, two schemes proposed by Third World countries to counter the hegemony of the North in the dissemination of news and in world trade...Reagan's government fiercely opposed both programs...
Some commentators now see the presence of the U.S. President's wife as special representative to the general assembly of the organization as an affront in itself. Laura Bush, a former teacher, has little experience of cultural, educational, or scientific policymaking... Substitute "terrorist" for "communist", "Bush Junior" for "Regan", and Laura's "represenatation" for Hillary's health plan, and we've come full circle!
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