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Peace and Corps
much of the glamor President Kennedy's Peace Corps may have held for some prospective applicants has been removed by Sargent Shriver, the head corpsman.
Mr. Eisenhower seized upon the incident of the postcard lost by a Peace Corps girl in Nigeria to attack the entire Corps as a `` juvenile experiment '' and to suggest sending a Corps member to the moon.
Congratulations to N.C. for successfully delving into the heart of the problems that face the Peace Corps.
I would hope that Sargent Shriver will encourage everyone entering the Peace Corps to read it.
Editor's note: Reprints of `` Confrontation '' will be included among the material to be distributed to members of the Peace Corps.
The Peace Corps should not pay the expenses of a wife or family, unless the wife is also accepted for full-time Peace Corps work on the same project.
There should be no draft exemption because of Peace Corps service.
Peace Corps volunteers obviously should not be paid what they might earn in comparable activities in the United States.
Peace Corps volunteers should be given just enough to provide a minimum decent standard of living.
In what part of the government should the Peace Corps be established??
The idea of a Peace Corps has captured the imagination of a great many people.
The Peace Corps, therefore, offers an opportunity to add a new dimension to our approach to the world -- an opportunity for the American people to think anew and start afresh in their participation in world development.
For this, the Peace Corps should be administered by a small, new, alive agency operating as one component in our whole overseas operation.
Pending the reorganization of our foreign aid structure and program, the Peace Corps should be established as an agency in the Department of State.
When the aid operations are reorganized the Peace Corps should remain a semi-autonomous, functional unit.
Meanwhile, the Peace Corps could be physically located in ICA's facilities and depend on the State Department and ICA for administrative support and, when needed, program assistance.

Peace and official
About half of all Peace Corps projects assigned to voluntary agencies will be carried out by religious groups, according to an official of the corps.
** The Declaration of Christmas Peace ( Old Great Square of Turku, Finland's official Christmas City )
With the advent of a Provisional IRA ceasefire and the beginning of what became known as the Peace Process during the 1990s, the official view of the Rising became more positive and in 1996 an 80th anniversary commemoration at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin was attended by the Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael, John Bruton.
On May 2, 1783, the Commander in Chief submitted his Sentiments on a Peace Establishment to the Committee, essentially providing an official Continental Army position.
However, the Peace Accords signed in December 1996 provide for the translation of some official documents and voting materials into several indigenous languages ( see summary of main substantive accords ).
A delegation sent by a postwar Albanian National Assembly that met at Durrës in December 1918 defended Albanian interests at the Paris Peace Conference, but the conference denied Albania official representation.
The League of Nations ( abbreviated as LON in English, and SDN in its other official languages ), was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.
The Hoover Institution Library and Archives ( official name: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace ) at Stanford was set up in 1920 by Herbert C. Hoover, one of Stanford's first graduates.
According to the Natural Law Party official web site, the national headquarters of the Natural Law Party closed effective on April 30, 2004 and the US Peace Government is now carrying forward the programs, policies, and ideals of the Natural Law Party.
In 2003, on notification by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, about 500 Christians, Muslims, Jews and other international and interfaith tourists joined the Unification Church Middle East Peace Initiative " to such a degree that the Old Gates were opened by the Israeli police near the Wailing Wall, and by the Muslim leadership at Al Aqsa, without incident ", as the official UN-report says.
That same year, Unification Church held the Interreligious Peace Sports Festival between the people of various faiths, which is, according to the UNESCO official data, " an annual sporting event designed to build and promote friendship and peace among people from different cultural and religious backgrounds using the powerful medium of sports competition ".
This study published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace lists official French government figures for war-related military deaths and missing of France and its colonies.
The Athenian Assembly, however, lays aside Philip's grievances against Demosthenes ' conduct and denounce the Peace of Philocrates which has been signed by both sides in 346 BC, an action equivalent to an official declaration of war by Athens against Macedonia.
Turku is also the official Christmas city of Finland, and ' Christmas Peace ' in Finland is declared on every 24 December from the Brinkkala Hall balcony.
The Peace Statue terrain is the official pétanque terrain situated on the seafront near the West Pier.
In 1972, Edward Downes, formerly associated with London's Royal Opera House, became Musical Director, and his first new production was the Australian premiere of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne, followed closely by Prokofiev's War and Peace as the opening night performance of the Sydney Opera House, a short time before the building's official opening.
* Ron Pundak — currently Director General of the Peres Center for Peace, formed first Israeli negotiating team with Hirschfeld, before official Israeli involvement.
While Xuan Thuy led the official negotiating team representing the Democratic Republic of Vietnam at the talks in Paris, Thọ and U. S. National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger since February 1970 engaged in secret talks that eventually led to a cease-fire in the Paris Peace Accords of January 23, 1973.
In 1994, Hussein concluded negotiations to end the official state of war with Israel resulting in the Israel – Jordan Treaty of Peace which he had begun negotiating in secret with the Israelis in the 1960s.
The Township of Laughlin, which is a judicial district for the purposes of elections, consists of a Justice Court, presided over by a Justice of the Peace ( elected for a six year term as a non-partisan official ) and a Constable ( elected for a four year term as a partisan official ).
The war was only drawn to an official close, however, after the Edict of Nantes, with the Peace of Vervins in May 1598.
The official logo of the Mount Everest Earth Day 20 International Peace Climb

Peace and described
Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has described homophobia as a " crime against humanity " and " every bit as unjust " as apartheid: " We struggled against apartheid in South Africa, supported by people the world over, because black people were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about ; our very skins.
The Global Mother Divine Organization is described as the women's wing of the Global Country of World Peace.
The Plan proposed the appointment of a " Secretary of Peace " and described the Secretary's powers.
During the hard-fought battle, described by Leo Tolstoy in War and Peace, Napoleon entered the city.
Of Hughes ' actions at the Peace Conference, the historian Seth Tillman described him as " a noisesome demagogue ", the " bete noir of Anglo-American relations.
Indeed, later in the century the Whig John Wilkes contemptuously described it as like " Peace of God, for it passeth all understanding ".
The microcredit initiatives of Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus have been described as inspiring a " war on poverty that blends social conscience and business savvy ".
Female Muslim lawyer Shirin Ebadi ( winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize ) has been described as the ' conscience of the Islamic Republic ' for her work in protecting the human rights of women and children in Iran.
Napoleon's crossing at the outset of the 1812 French invasion of Russia is described in War and Peace.
Public disclosure of Peace Bridge plans was made on 28 July 2009, and it was described as a sleek, elegant contribution to downtown Calgary.
Upon his death in 2010, UNESCO-IHE described him as a " towering figure and pioneer in hydrology " whilst the Chancellor of the NUI, Dr. Maurice Manning, described him as " that rare phenomenon in Irish life, a public intellectual whose life was devoted, without posture, to the public service .” Professor John Sweeney who was one of the scientists as part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 described him as " perhaps one of the most important, prolific and distinguished scientists of the past generation.
The battle scenes in Tolstoy's War and Peace highlight the uncertainty and confusion described by Clausewitz.
One final time the ban was lifted, this time for ten days in early December 1961 to permit Lutuli and his wife to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies in Oslo, an award described by Die Transvaler as " an inexplicable pathological phenomenon ".
He caused some controversy when he described Lord Trimble the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former First Minister of Northern Ireland as a " crankpot " for stating that Hillary Clinton's claim to have been " helpful " in the Northern Irish peace process was, " A wee bit silly ".
From 25 Stangate Street, Lambeth, the dealer in musical instruments, as Peace now described himself, went out every night to burgle houses in Camberwell and other parts of South London.
When next morning Peace appeared before the magistrate at Greenwich Police Court he was not described by name — he had refused to give any — but as " a half-caste about sixty years of age, of repellent aspect ".
She described how on the night of 29 November 1876, she had come out of the outhouse in the yard at the back of her house, and found herself confronted by Peace holding a revolver ; how he said: " Speak, or I'll fire!
program surveyed War or Peace and America and described them as being well maintained.
In 1999, Peace Action opposed the NATO bombing of Kosovo, which it described as " cruise missile humanitarianism ", and founded the National Coalition for Peace and Justice, a body uniting most of the major peace groups in the country.
Weldon was one of six " Congressional Co-Chairs " for a Sun Myung Moon event on March 23, 2004 in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, which was described in the invitation as being for the " Interreligious and International Peace Council.

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