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U.N. Gave \$432,000 To the Foreign Press To Publish Its Views\comm{This is incorrect. The aim was not to promote the U.N. or its view but to get a wide-ranging exchange of different views.}\par}

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\noindent UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., May 27---The United Nations has acknowledged\comm{The use of the word \dq{acknowledge} is calculated to make it seem as if the U.N. had previously tried to hide this information: In fact, the project was announced to the press in 1979. Press releases, leaflets and booklets on it were released. \journaltitle{The New York Times} itself was asked to participate in the project. A letter from its publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, said: \dq{\e{It is with great regret that we shall not be able to participate. I do hope that you will find other newspapers that will be able to cooperate and I look forward to seeing the product of your ideas.}}} giving subsidies of \$432,000 to 15 foreign newspapers for supplements promoting the organization's view on aid to the third world. 

The newspapers receiving the money included \journaltitle{Le Monde of Paris} and \journaltitle{Asahi Shimbun} of Tokyo, each of which received the maximum grant of \$48,000, according to a table supplied by the United Nations. 

A 16\textsuperscript{th} paper, \journaltitle{Jornal do Brasil} of Rio de Janeiro, said it ran the supplements but refused the grant as improper.\comm{No representative of the \journaltitle{Jornal do Brasil} ever said at any meeting of the editors that the grants were improper.}

\midline{A Japanese Provided Money}

The money was provided by Ryoichi Sasakawa, an influential conservative Japanese businessman who has supported the United Nations financially be- fore. His help with the supplements was solicited by Genichi Akatani, a former United Nations Under Secretary General for Public Information. Mr. Akatani obtained \$1.25 million, according to his Japanese successor, Yasushi Akashi. 

None of the supplements, which appeared quarterly, were labeled advertising, nor did they contain any references to the grants.\comm{The payments covered a part of the newsprint costs. If this made the supplements \dq{advertisements} then all stories filed from U.N, Headquarters by \journaltitle{The New York Times}' correspondents should also be labelled as ads. For the \journaltitle{Times} has accepted free office space at the U.N. for over three decades. The cost of this runs to several hundred thousand dollars.} They consisted of articles written by the participating newspapers and by United Nations agencies. Each participating paper was required to carry three articles produced by the United Nations, according to Leila Doss, director of the division for economic and social information in the Department of Public \nl In\-for\-mation. Some of the articles written by United Nations officials were identified as such in at least some of the papers. 

Reached by telephone in Paris, \journaltitle{Le Monde}'s director, Jacques Fauvet, said.  \dq{It is desirable to support the north-south dialogue,}\comm{The concept of the North-South dialogue, central to the whole project, is mentioned here for the first time in passing.} and he added that he saw \dq{no reason to-refuse} the money. Mr. Fauvet said he did not know that his paper was required to run in each supplement at least three articles prepared by United Nations agencies. 

He said that decisions on what went into the supplements were left to Jean Schwoebel, \journaltitle{Le Monde}'s former diplomatic correspondent, who receives \$69,600 a year from the United Nations as the project's coordinator, 

In Rio de Janeiro, Walter Fontura, editor in chief of \journaltitle{Jornal do Brasil}, said his newspaper rejected \$24,000 to reimburse the \nl paper for newsprint because \dq{we do not feel it is proper to receive any kind of subsidy.} He said, \dq{It raises a question with respect to the material.}\comm{The attempt here is to contrast the Mr. Clean image of the \journaltitle{Jornal do Brasil}---a newspaper which has thrived under one of the most repressive military juntas the world has seen---with the impropriety of the other papers involved.  The unstated---and absurd---premise here is that the U.N.  bribed some of the most independent papers in some of the most openly democratic countries of the world. And that it did so with a few thousand dollars!}

Mr. Fontura said he tried to persuade the other 15 newspapers that participated to reject the subsidies, "but I was not applauded." Without the money from the United Nations, he did not feel obligated to run its articles. His supplements carried only material chosen by his editors and supplied by the participating newspapers. 

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\midline{Meeting Now in Geneva}

What happened to the rest of Mr. Sasakawa's \$1.25 million \nl gift is not clear.\comm{By saying this is \dq{not clear,} young Bernie makes it sound as if murky things were afoot. The information was not only available, it was given to him.}

However, the editors of the newspapers involved or their representatives have been meeting every months at the find's expense in Vienna, Paris and other cities to choose themes and the contents for the supplements. They are in Geneva now to look for fresh funds. Generous expenses\comm{The \dq{generous expenses} were standard U.N. per diem payments which barely cover the cost of hotels and food.  The throwaway reference to an unnamed person fired for accepting \dq{a cash allowance} is the very worst type of yellow journalism. It has nothing to do with the U.N. project.} are allotted them, and Mr. Fontira said he had dismissed one of his staff members who accepted a cash allowance.

What the United Nations received for its money is unclear. \nl Mr. Fontura said the project \dq{is not contributing to a dialogue.}\comm{This conflicts with the earlier assertion that the supplements promoted U.N. views.}

In one issue, a long article by Bhaskar P. Menon of the \nl United Nation's Division for Social and Economic Information, deplored the fact that the \dq{new international economic order} had not been enacted. But Mr. Menon did not explain that this is the term used to refer to an enormous transfer of goods and services from rich to poor through the erection of commodity cartels, the printing of money by the International Monetary Fund, big increases in aid and similar devices.\comm{An absurd characterization of the New International Economic Order.} Mr. Menon simply described all this as the \dq{decolonization of the world economy.}\comm{The quote on \dq{decolonization} is falsely attributed. The full quote in the article reads: \dq{\e{Developing countries are asking nothing less than the decolonization of the world economy, their own complete economic emancipation.}}}

\midline{Others Also Omitted Details}

Mr. Schwoebel, the coordinator, wrote that the supplements should persuade readers to \dq{make sacrifices} for a \dq{new economic and social order.} He, too, omitted details. Similarly, Secretary General Kurt Waldheim said the supplements would \dq{help to foster a better understanding of the vital objectives of the néw international economic order} but left out specifics. 

A supplement that appeared last fall in \journaltitle{Dawn in Karachi}, Pakistan, carried a story from \journaltitle{Zycie Warszawy} of Warsaw, another of the participating newspapers, attributing inflation in Communist countries to imports from the rest of the world; an article by a World Health Organization writer on the group's workers in Thailand, and a staff-written review of Western inflation that traced its roots to the \dq{struggle} between \dq{monopoly profits} and unions.\comm{A mild version of McCarthyism---code words to set off anti-communist alarms. Again the quotes and assessments are lifted out of context.}

The first supplement appeared in mid-1979. According to Miss Doss of the United Nations, the newspaper grants ran out after a year. The \journaltitle{Frankfurter Rundschau} of Frankfurt, which had a \$24,000 subsidy, and \journaltitle{Die Presse} of Vienna, which received \$16,000, then dropped out of the group, she said.\comm{Does not mention the fact that the other newspapers carried the supplements for the second year without financial support. In doing so, the papers in developing countries were making quite a sacrifice as their newsprint is expensive, in short supply, and imported.}

Now Mr. Sasakawa's gift is exhausted, so Mr. Schwoebel has asked the United Nations to appeal to the General Assembly for \$200,000 to attract more money.  Opposition from the United States, Britain and other nations is regarded by United Nations officials as certain to kill this plan. 

Mr. Schwoebel has said that three oil countries, Algeria, Venezuela and Kuwait, might replenish the fund, which would raise fresh questions:of influence, Mr. Akashi, the United Nations information chief, said, however, that he would not hesitate to administer money from such governments.\comm{\dq{Such} governments conjure up all the sinister images the press here has succeeded in attaching to OPEC countries.}

The other papers in the project and the subsidies they received were \journaltitle{La Stampa,} Turin, Italy, \$40,000; \journaltitle{El Pais,} Madrid, \$24,000; \journaltitle{Politika,} Belgrade, Yugoslavia, \$37,000; \journaltitle{Zycie Warszawy,} Warsaw, \$40,000; \journaltitle{Magyar Nemzet,} Budapest, Hungary, \$24,000; \journaltitle{El Moudjahid,} Algiers, \$24,000; \journaltitle{Le Soleil,} Dakar, Senegal, \$16,000; \journaltitle{Excélsior,} Mexico, \$24,000; \journaltitle{Indian Express,} New Delhi, \$40,000; \journaltitle{Kayhan Newspapers,}\comm{Young Bernie was told the Kayhan did not participate although it was willing to. Its inclusion here is for obvious jingoistic reasons.} Teheran, Iran, \$16,000; \journaltitle{Darn,} Karachi, \$16,000.}

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