Word: pullout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fast, said UNESCO Director-General Amadou Mahtar M'Bow of Senegal. Reason: the U.S. has announced that it will pull out of UNESCO after 1984 unless the agency renounces its anti-Western bias, including support for a "new world information order" that could muzzle journalists. A U.S. pullout would deprive UNESCO of about $43 million annually, roughly 25% of its budget. Aides to M'Bow told other members that UNESCO might not pay back the currency-cushion funds until 1985-and then only to nations that are paid-up UNESCO members. Snapped one member of the U.S. delegation...
...world can bring off an Olympics with 140 countries from every continent participating, in spite of the pullout of a superpower, then perhaps we are learning to survive...
...spends little on developing its amateur athletes. Says Neguib: "I do not know how to get the maximum power from my body. My movements are still rough." His full-time job as a police officer in Cairo limits his daily workout to spare time. Before the Soviet-bloc pullout, Neguib guessed his average throw (203 ft.) might rank him eighth in the world, behind two Russians, two East Germans, two Americans and a Cuban. Now, eerily, he has a shot at a medal as bronze as the Sphinx...
...first Olympics to be paid for largely by businesses, these firms have staked huge amounts of cash and pride on what they hope will be an uplifting 16 days of sports. Company officials, though, can get butterflies when they think about the uncertainty of their investments. The pullout of athletes from the Soviet Union and 13 other countries could hurt TV ratings and dampen press coverage of the Games. The unprecedented clutter of Olympic-oriented promotion could inspire public indifference and confusion. Or, in the worst case, some disaster or embarrassing incident might occur at the Games that would cast...
Reagan nonetheless voiced only gentle criticism of the Soviets last week. In a talk to U.S. Olympic athletes in Colorado, he derided the "political machinations of . . . countries that are less than free," but did not specifically mention the Soviet pullout from the Games. In the major speech of his European tour, which he was to deliver before the Irish parliament in Dublin on Monday, Reagan planned to stress a "two-track" approach to Moscow: military strength combined with willingness to resume negotiations on arms control and other issues whenever the U.S.S.R. is ready for serious discussions...