When the U.S. announced its intention late last year to withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at the end of 1984, many foreign diplomats dismissed the move as Reagan Administration isolationism. Now it looks as if the U.S. will not be alone after all. Britain gave notice last week that it will leave the Paris-based organization at the end of 1985 if certain management and budgetary reforms are not under taken. The decision came after a Cabinet argument in which Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, insisted that Britain take a...
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