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.

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.

But there are indications that many developing nations will welcome Peace Corps volunteers, and that if the volunteers are well chosen, they will soon demonstrate their value and make many friends.

To meet this urgent need for skilled manpower we are proposing the establishment of a Peace Corps -- an organization which will recruit and train American volunteers, sending them abroad to work with the people of other nations.

Peace Corps volunteers are assured a tax benefit under the law creating the agency.

About 25 Peace Corps volunteers in Grenada teach special education, remedial reading, and vocational training and assist with HIV / AIDS work.

Prior to the suspension, Peace Corps had more than 100 volunteers throughout the country, and the program is gradually increasing its numbers again.

About 100 Peace Corps volunteers concentrate in the sectors of health, agriculture, education, rural community development, and the environment.

* Peace Corps, a U. S. government run organization that sends volunteers to developing countries.

Today, it produces more Peace Corps volunteers per capita than any other U. S. academic institution, and ranks in the top one percent for number of graduates who go on to earn a Ph. D.

Among all undergraduate institutions, Kalamazoo College was # 1 per capita in 2005 for recruitment of Peace Corps volunteers.

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

As of April 2007, the Peace Corps had 58 volunteers working in Belize.

In addition, the Peace Corps maintains a large program with about eighty volunteers engaged in the environment, public health, and education sectors, mainly at the village level.

Toledo's prospects improved when two Peace Corps volunteers, Joel Meister and Nancy Deeds, arrived in Chimbote looking for lodging and arrived at his family's door.

The trio were shot as they walked towards a luncheon for Peace Corps volunteers.

* Darien Book Aid Plan is a nonprofit, all-volunteer organization that distributes free books in response to specific requests from Peace Corps volunteers, libraries and schools worldwide.

The Peace Corps was organized by the United States as an " army " of volunteers.

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Because of the drug's very long half-life, the Centers for Disease Control originally recommended a mefloquine dosage of 250 mg every two weeks ; however, this caused an unacceptably high malaria rate in the Peace Corps volunteers who participated in the approval study, so the drug regimen was switched to once a week.

A study of Peace Corps volunteers in the highly Loa — endemic Gabon, for example, had the following results: 6 of 20 individuals in a placebo group contracted the disease, compared to 0 of 16 in the DEC-treated group.

" He further noted that Shriver " served as our founder, friend, and guiding light for the past 50 years " and that " his legacy of idealism will live on in the work of current and future Peace Corps volunteers.

How and when should the Peace Corps be launched??

The Peace Corps should be launched soon so that the opportunity to recruit the most qualified people from this year's graduating classes will not be lost.

In any case, our Peace Corps personnel should be offered as technician helpers in development projects of the U.N. and other international agencies.

Congress should then be asked to give the Peace Corps a firm legislative foundation for the next fiscal year.

Specifically, Congress should consider authorizing the Peace Corps to receive contributions from American businesses, unions, civic organizations and the public at large.

Steps should also be taken to link the Food for Peace Program with the Peace Corps, so that foreign currencies accumulated by the sale of U.S. surplus food under P.L. 480 can be put to use to pay some of the host country expenses of Peace Corps personnel.

The extent to which participating bodies such as U. S. voluntary agencies, universities, international organizations, and the host country or institutions in the host country can and should share the cost of the Peace Corps programs must be fully explored.

The Peace Conference adopted the principle that these territories should be administered by different governments on behalf of the League – a system of national responsibility subject to international supervision.

The 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years ' War, established the rule that prisoners of war should be released without ransom at the end of hostilities and that they should be allowed to return to their homelands.

" Still, though all Canadian nationals were as equally British subjects as their British counterparts prior to the implementation of the Canadian Citizenship Act in 1947, the idea of Canadian-born persons being appointed governor general was raised as early as 1919, when, at the Paris Peace Conference, Canadian prime minister Robert Borden consulted with Prime Minister of South Africa Louis Botha and the two agreed that the viceregal appointees should be long-term residents of their respective dominions.

The name Land for Peace is derived from the wording of the resolution's first operative paragraph which affirms that peace should include the application of two principles ; Withdrawal of Israeli forces ( Giving Up Land ), and Termination of all claims or states of belligerency ( Making Peace ).

Prior to World War II she remarked in an interview with The New York Times Magazine that Adolf Hitler should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.