Laura Bush Escorts U.S. Back to UNESCO
From Times Wire Reports
First Lady Laura Bush ushered the United States back into the U.N.’s main cultural agency at its Paris headquarters.
The U.S. rejoined the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization after an absence since 1984 from a group the Reagan administration said was corrupted by bad management, wasteful spending and anti-Western views.
Mrs. Bush, who was on the second day of a five-day trip, started off at the Elysee Palace with a social call on President Jacques Chirac.
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