U.S. urged to restore its UNESCO support

A panel of international politicians and intellectuals has just released a report urging the U.S. to reinstate its support of the United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization. The U.S. withdrew its support of and participation in this U.N. organization in 1984. The study, "A Forum in Restoration," was sponsored by the United Nations Association of the United States and is directed to policymakers in the U.S. Panel chairman was Robert T. Stafford, a former U.S. Senator from Vermont, and physicist Walter A. Rosenblith of Massachusetts Institute of Technology served as scientific member. During its first three decades, UNESCO had only the aura of virtue surrounding it. It had helped bring science and education back to war-torn Europe before turning its attention to building the intellectual infrastructure of the Third World. It is also the major supporter of such groups as the International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry and the International Council of Scientific ...