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DATE: TUESDAY, August 31, 1993                   TAG: 9308310188
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

PANEL SAYS U.S. SHOULD REJOIN UNESCO

A Clinton administration task force has recommended that the United States revive its membership in UNESCO, a U.N. agency abandoned by former President Reagan to signal U.S. dissatisfaction with the world organization.

Assistant Secretary of State Douglas Bennet, who headed the task force, said in an interview Monday that the recommendation sets October 1995 as the proposed date for rejoining the U.N. agency.

Amid great fanfare and controversy, the United States withdrew from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 1984, an action that crippled the agency. The Reagan administration was trying to send a message to the U.N. system that administrative waste and political antics would not be tolerated by the United States, which pays more dues to the U.N. and its agencies than any other country. - Los Angeles Times

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