Not ‘authentique,’ nor ‘exacts,’ but ‘accurate’
NZPA New York United Nations delegates spent 45 minutes arguing yesterday about whether news on disarmament should be truthful, authentic or exact — and then decided that accurate was the word they were looking for. The argument centred on how to amend an American proposal aimed at facilitating the flow of information on disarmament, the Soviet delegate saying in Russian that the information should be “truthful" or “authentic." A French representative said that “authentique"
meant “coming from official sources," which was not how <
the public should be informed of disarmament.
Costa Rica’s delegate agreed, and added in Spanish that “exacta” filled the bill - until Egypt’s representative asked how to translate it into Arabic. ‘ t ;? The chairman, James Ghebo, of Ghana, ended the discussion by saying in English that he was not running a grammar class. Nigeria’s suggestion of the English word “accurate” was then passed 42 votes to two, with 11 abstentions.
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