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.

A Peace Corps official described the editorial as `` precisely the message we need to communicate to the men and women who will soon be Peace Corps volunteers ''.

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.

The four sculptural groups at the base of the Arc are The Triumph of 1810 ( Cortot ), Resistance and Peace ( both by Antoine Étex ) and the most renowned of them all, Departure of the Volunteers of 1792 commonly called La Marseillaise ( François Rude ).

It is fashionable now to suggest that Peace Corps Volunteers gained as much or more, from their experience as the countries they worked.

It spawned dozens of programs, among them the Job Corps, whose purpose was to help disadvantaged youth develop marketable skills ; the Neighborhood Youth Corps, established to give poor urban youths work experience and to encourage them to stay in school ; Volunteers in Service to America ( VISTA ), a domestic version of the Peace Corps, which placed concerned citizens with community-based agencies to work towards empowerment of the poor ; the Model Cities Program for urban redevelopment ; Upward Bound, which assisted poor high school students entering college ; legal services for the poor ; the Food Stamp Act of 1964 ( which expanded the federal food stamp program ); the Community Action Program, which initiated local Community Action Agencies charged with helping the poor become self-sufficient ; and Project Head Start, which offered preschool education for poor children.

Over 1, 700 Peace Corps Volunteers have served in Samoa over that time, with 51 Volunteers currently in-country.

After completing her medical training, Jemison joined the staff of the Peace Corps and served as a Peace Corps Medical Officer from 1983 to 1985 responsible for the health of Peace Corps Volunteers serving in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Nearly 10 percent of every graduating class goes on to join a major service organization: the Peace Corps, the Lasallian Volunteers, Teach for America or the Jesuit Volunteer Corps.

AmeriCorps VISTA, or Volunteers in Service to America ( VISTA ), was founded in 1965 as a domestic version of the Peace Corps.

Appointed as Director of Peace Corps under George W. Bush, Vasquez had donated $ 100, 000 to Bush's campaign and was criticized by former Volunteers for lacking experience with, or previous membership in, Peace Corps.

* Returned Peace Corps Volunteers ' analysis of National Call to Service program, from Peace Corps Online

Peace Corps Volunteers teach and provide technical assistance to Tongans.

He was also a Justice of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenant for Glamorgan and for some years first Lieutenant-Colonel of the 4th Glamorgan Rifle Volunteers.

The first five ( 3 male ; 2 female ) American Peace Corps Volunteers arrived in Dhankuta Bazaar in Fall, 1962 to work as teachers in the two high schools.

It was intended to be something of a Christian version of the Peace Corps and Volunteers in Service to America ( VISTA ).

In 1971 the Peace Corps had lost its independent status when the Nixon Administration made it part of Action, an umbrella agency that included the Foster Grandparent Program, Volunteers in Service to America ( VISTA ), and the National Center for Service Learning.

" They have declared the Peace Corps an instrument of U. S. foreign policy and a tool of the Reagan Administration ," asserted Francine Dionne, spokesman for the Returned Peace Corps Volunteers Committee on Central America.

* Returned Peace Corps Volunteers ( RPCVs ) Tom and Eileen Lonergan

* List of returned Peace Corps Volunteers

In 2002 the Royal Rifle Volunteers took part in a major NATO " Partnership for Peace " exercise in the Ukraine codenamed Exercise COSSACK EXPRESS.

Then-President Óscar Arias authored a regional plan in 1987 that served as the basis for the Esquipulas Peace Agreement and Arias was awarded the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize for his work.

A recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, he served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

Locke's father, also called John, was a country lawyer and clerk to the Justices of the Peace in Chew Magna, who had served as a captain of cavalry for the Parliamentarian forces during the early part of the English Civil War.

Friedman served two years in the United States Peace Corps, teaching in Borneo in Malaysia with John Gross.

During the process leading up to elections in October 1994, the United States served as a significant financier and member of the most important commissions established to monitor implementation of the Rome General Peace Accords.

He then served in the German delegation to the Paris Peace Conference and as advisor to the Confidential Committee for Constitutional Reform, which drafted the Weimar Constitution.

* June 1 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace, claiming to represent the majority of U. S. veterans who served in Southeast Asia, speak against war protests.

He was awarded in the Nobel Peace Prize in 1902, and served as director of the organization until his death in 1906.

Pinker has served on the editorial boards of journals such as Cognition, Daedalus, and PLOS One, and on the advisory boards of institutions for scientific research ( e. g., the Paul Allen Institute for Brain Science ), free speech ( e. g., the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education ), the popularization of science ( e. g., the World Science Festival and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ), peace ( e. g., the Peace Research Endowment ), and secular humanism ( e. g., the Freedom from Religion Foundation and the Secular Coalition of America

He is a co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize and a former prime minister, having served from 2006 until his inauguration as president after winning the 2007 East Timorese presidential election.

Toynbee worked for the Political Intelligence Department of the British Foreign Office during World War I and served as a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

Since the return of democracy, Argentina has also turned into strong proponent of enhanced regional stability in South America, the country revitalized its relationship with Brazil ; and during the 1990s ( after signing the Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1984 between Chile and Argentina ) settled lingering border disputes with Chile ; discouraged military takeovers in Ecuador and Paraguay ; served with the United States, Brazil and Chile as one of the four guarantors of the Ecuador – Peru peace process.

In addition, during the past 42 years, almost 2, 000 Peace Corps volunteers have served in Belize.

* The Voice of Peace ( Hebrew: קול השלום-Kol Hashalom ) was a radio station that served Israel and the Middle East for 20 years.

In 1918, Woodrow Wilson appointed Dulles as legal counsel to the United States delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference where he served under his uncle, Robert Lansing, then Secretary of State.

Dulles also served as the Chairman and Co-founder of the Commission on a Just and Durable Peace of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America ( succeeded by the National Council of Churches ), the Chairman of the Board for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1935 to 1952, and was a founding member of Foreign Policy Association and Council of Foreign Relations.

The county is named for James Lawrence, and co-founded by Isaac Bolt, who served as a Lawrence County Commissioner and Justice of the Peace.

He had commanded the group of Greek colonists who founded Amphipolis in 437 – 6 BC, had served as a general on several occasions before and during the Peloponnesian War, and was one of the signers of the Peace of Nicias.

On her second visit to the capital, HMNZS Te Kaha served as venue for a series of peace talks culminating in the signing of the Townsville Peace Accord.

He served as a member of the State Legislature in 1854, had several terms as Township Supervisor, 16 years as Justice of the Peace, and was Plymouth Village President in 1898.

* Jehu Grubb ( c. 1781-1854 ), an early settler and Justice of the Peace, a War of 1812 veteran who served in the Ohio Legislature from 1828 to 1832.

He was a founding father of Long Lake, served as the first Postmaster, the Town Clerk, and Justice of the Peace.