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...AMADOU & MARIAM...
...Amadou & Mariam Dimanche A Bamako; $18.98 World music doesn't have a reputation for fun, and Amadou & Mariam, the self-proclaimed Blind Couple of Mali, might not seem the likeliest candidates to rock the boat. But a) they wear the coolest shades in the history of sightlessness, and b) they have partnered with Spanish-French producer Manu Chao, whose interest in multiculturalism stops at every country's best pop hooks. Listening to the fusion of Amadou & Mariam's polyrhythmic blues with Chao's exuberant rip-offs is like watching another nation's most hysterically bad TV; you feel...
Last week UNESCO's director-general for the past twelve years, Senegal's Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, announced that he will not seek a third term when his mandate ends in November 1987. M'Bow, 65, whose autocratic stewardship has been attacked from both within and without the 158-nation organization, said he would leave "to get UNESCO out of the hurricane zone." The U.S. and Britain promptly announced that they will withhold any reconsideration of their departure until it becomes clear just how far UNESCO will ultimately move. SOVIET UNION A Mountain For Samantha...
Former BMF Vice President Peter-Charles N. Bright ’01 led the organization in a joint effort with the BSA to protest the verdict of the shooting of Amadou Diallo, whom New York City police shot 11 times with no evidence of his guilt...
Then France's Foreign Minister Roland Dumas delivered a harsh warning to the agency's director general, Amadou Mahtar M'Bow. Dumas said that reforms of the Paris-based organization are "without doubt an indispensable guarantee for the survival of UNESCO. It is now up to the director general to establish a plan and a calendar in order to apply them." The message was significant because France had not only lobbied against U.S. withdrawal from UNESCO late last year but had agreed to contribute an extra $2 million to help make up for the loss of $43 million a year...