Beginning with the official exchange of letters between Secretary of State Shultz and Unesco Director-General Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, this forum continues with responses from 28 international critics and supporters. Also included are two background pieces on the New International Information and Communications Order. (PD)

Offers a facsimile reproduction of the section on "Information" of the printed text of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Reports that Conference results reveal a shift in East-West balance of information flow in conventional areas of communication exchange. (MH)

Presents the text of the declaration of fundamental principles concerning the contribution of the mass media to strengthening peace and international understanding, promoting human rights, and countering racialism, apartheid and incitement to war. Adopted by the UNESCO General Conference in November 1978. (JMF)

Reporting of development news requires the journalist to examine, evaluate, and report the relevance of a development project to national and local needs. (JMF)

Presents data on how international news reaches people in the Third World, particularly Latin America. Suggests media capabilities for delivering world news to audiences of the general public in developing nations. (JMF)

Argues that the compromises involved in the final acceptance of the UNESCO Mass Media Declaration favored none of the parties involved. The developing Third World nations gained the most by the declaration's recognition of the present imbalance in news reporting. (JMF)

Reviews the three stages involved in the development of the UNESCO Mass Media Declaration: the developing countries' initiative, the Western counter move, and the mutual accommodation in a spirit of realistic compromise. (JMF)

Details the colloquiam commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the end of World War II with participants from East Germany, Norway, Soviet Union, Denmark and Finland. Analyzes detente in terms of conflicting ideologies, social responsibilities, and free flow of information. (MH)

Discusses language discrimination in international relations and promotes the use of Esperanto as a universal second language making all language groups equal. (JMF)

Discusses the dependence of Latin American press on American news agencies with the result that the Latin American press presents an American point of view. (JMF)

Examines various influences on the dominant paradigm that ruled intellectual definitions of development through the late 1960's. Chronicles the emergence of a newer conception of development which implies a different role for communication than the usual top-down development approach of the past. (MH)

Examines the role of United States' network television in international news coverage, and the influence of satellites and earth station locations on that coverage. Presents results of a study on the effects of international news, particularly from the Third World, on U.S. network television during the period 1972 through 1976. (JMF)

Maintains that, contrary to popular predictions of their decentralizing impact, digital communications contribute to new and more complex forms of corporate integration on a global scale. Discusses how to deflect the centralizing spatial bias of new communications technology. (SR)

Examines the "New York Times" coverage of 18 Southern African nations for the first six months of 1960, 1965, 1970, and 1975. Indicates that violence and economic issues receive the most coverage. (JMF)

Presents the Soviet view of the negotiations leading to the UNESCO Mass Media Declaration and of the American reaction to the Declaration. (JMF)