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THE TWIG
NOVEMBER 19. 1980
UNESCO and the world information order
(Continued from Page 2)
And yet, it would come as
a great surprise to us-indeed,
it would pass beIief~to learn
that we must forego our ac
customed freedoms and
conform to the repressive
practices that are common to
so much of the world.
This, however, is
precisely the direction in
which the world is headng.
And this is what it will come
to, unless the United States
and the handful of other free
countries are able to head it
off.
New Doctor
Infirmary
addition
by Sandra.Vail
Dr. Patricia Broomhall of
Leeds School of Medicine in
Yorkshire, England is the
latest addition to Meredith’s
-infirmary staff. Dr.
BroomhaU’s duty hours at
Carroll Infirmary at 8-10 a.m.
Tuesday and 2-4 p.m. Thurs
day and her office is on
Computer Drive in Raleigh.
Originally from
Leicestershire, England, Dr.
Broomhall entered a five year
medical school immediately
after high school (as is the
case of many European
countries), followed by two
six-month clinicships as house
physician for a neurologist
and an internist, respectively,
and three months’ duty in an
emergency room. She came to
America in 1970 and most
recently served on the in
firmary staff at the University
of Virginia.
Dr. Broomhall com
mented that she preferred
practicing medicine in the
U.S., stating, “It's much more
stimulating; the National
Health in England makes a
physician a glorified clerk,
seeing one patient every two
minutes sometimes.” She
added that doctors commonly
make twenty to thirty house
calls a day.
In England, it is much
easier for a woman to pursue
a professional life, Dr.
Broomhall stated. She and her
husband (also a physician),
like most English doctors, had
their practice in their home
where both could help with
child care. Dr. Broomhall’s
advice for women interested
in health careers is, “Keep a
sense of humor all the way;
it’s terribly important that
you don’t become, like in the
poem “Ducks,” ‘dull,
humorless, and glum'.”
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The most recent step
along this road was taken in
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, at the
21st general conference of
UNESCO, the United
Nationals Educational,
Scientific and Cultural
Organization. 153 nations are
members of UNESCO and an
over-whelming majority of
them are united in a single
purpose. The majority con
sists of so-called “non-
aligned” and "developing”
countries, and is spearheaded
by the Soviet Bloc; the pur
pose that unites them for the
moment is the creation ^
what has come to be called the
New World Information Or
der. Just what this New World
Order will be and what it will
mean for the Free World is
easily gathered from a brief
history of ttie idea.
A summit meeting of
“non-aligned” countries in
Algiers in 1973, called for
“reorganization of existing
communication channels,
which are the legacy of the
colonial past.” This demand
was repeated at “non-
aligned” conferences in Lima
in 1975, and in Tunis, Mexico
City and Colombo in 1976.
Finally, a Non-aligned
Countries Information
Council, meeting in Havana in
1978, ordered a com
prehensive study of the
problem which was to be
submitted to UNESCO and the
UN. Among the more startling
demands made in this study
was the demand for the
establishment of a
“supranational tribunal to
monitor media behavior.”
The last five annual
conferences UNESCO, and
several regional conferences,
have followed the “non-
aligned” line closely,
charging those few countries
in the world that still have a
free press with “cultural
aggression”and “moral and
cultural pollution” . for
reporting the news as they see
it. The head of UNESCO’s
department for the “free flow
of information/' for example,
found it intolerable that the
Western priess should give the
impression to its readers that
the r^ime of the Ayatollah
Khomeini might be run by
“religious zealots.”
' And so we come to
Belgrade. There, in Sep
tember, the Soviet delegation
placed on the UNESCO
agenda a resolution con
demning “imperial, tran
snational corporatimis” (read
NBC, ABC, CBS, UPI, AP,
Reuters, BBC, etc.), for their
domination of international
communications. The Soviet
Union then sponsored a
resolution calling for a special
conference of UNESCO in
1983. The purpose of the
conference would be to
monitor the success of the
world's media at living up to
its obligation to “contribute to
strengthening peace and
international understanding,
to fte promotion of human
rights and to countering
racialism, apartheid and
incitement to war.”
It is difficult for the
laymen to penetrate this layer
of catchwords that enfolds the
harsh reality of the resolution,
which passed over
whelmingly. The resolution
might be rephrased to read:
“UNESCO will be established
as the supranational mmitbr
of media behavior.” A truer
reading would be, that those
powers that are the greatest
threat to peace, that are the
most notorious despisers of
human rights, whose con
tribution to international
understanding is to brandish
words as blunt instruments,
whose idea of freedom of the
press is to print the party line
without bias, these powers
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