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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.
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.

Peace and is
It is important, however, that the Peace Corps be advanced not as an arm of the Cold War but as a contribution to the world community.
But as the popular response suggests, the potentiality of the Peace Corps is very great.
This temporary Peace Corps is being established under existing authority in the Mutual Security Act and will be located in the Department of State.
Peace is a worthy objective ; ;
Azerbaijan is a member of the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, NATO's Partnership for Peace, Euro-Atlantic Partnership ; World Health Organization, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ; the Council of Europe, CFE Treaty, the Community of Democracies ; the International Monetary Fund ; and the World Bank.
Armenia is a member of more than 40 different international organizations including the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, NATO's Partnership for Peace, the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Trade Organization and La Francophonie.
* 1989 – A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
* 1664 – The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
* 1843 – The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated.
* 1978 – The Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China is signed.
* 1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty ( Treaty of Taipei ) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Agriculture on a large scale is practiced further north in Alberta that anywhere else in North America, extending into the Peace River country above the 55th parallel north.
* 1920 – The Latvian – Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
* 1559 – The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis treaty is signed, ending the Italian Wars.
Since the fall of Napoleon ( 1815 ), the sculpture representing Peace is interpreted as commemorating the Peace of 1815.
* S. Daniel Abraham Peace is Possible, foreword by Bill Clinton
The northern two-thirds of the province is largely unpopulated and undeveloped, and is mostly mountainous except east of the Rockies, where the Peace River District, in the northeast of the province contains BC's portion of the Canadian Prairies.
The largest is a Food for Peace school lunch program administered by Catholic Relief Services.
Though Oceania's Ministry of Truth, Ministry of Plenty, and Ministry of Peace each have names with meanings deliberately opposite to their real purpose, the Ministry of Love is perhaps the most straightforward: " rehabilitated thought criminals " leave the Ministry as loyal subjects who have been brainwashed into genuinely loving Big Brother.
West of the Lower Houses is the new Lester B. Pearson Garden of Peace and International Understanding and the E. J.

Peace and diplomatic
Peace with Bulgaria was secured through territorial concessions and a diplomatic marriage between the children of the two emperors.
* In 2006, The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem awarded Colin Powell with the Truman Peace Prize for his efforts to conduct the " war against terrorism ," through diplomatic as well as military means, and to avert regional and civil conflicts in many parts of the world.
Egypt was the first Arab state to establish diplomatic relations with the state of Israel, after the signing of the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty at the Camp David Accords.
Mexico and the U. S. then called the five Central American countries into diplomatic talks at the Central American Peace Conference to increase stability in the area.
In January 1920, at the Paris Peace Conference, negotiators from France, Britain, and Greece agreed to divide Albania among Yugoslavia, Italy, and Greece as a diplomatic expedient aimed at finding a compromise solution to the territorial conflict between Italy and Yugoslavia.
The Assembly also declared, by its adoption of resolution 377 A, that it could call for other collective measures — such as economic and diplomatic sanctions — in situations constituting the milder " threat to the Peace ".
The utopian ideals of the founding fathers – social justice and the right to decent work – were changed by diplomatic and political compromises made at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, showing the ILO's balance between idealism and pragmatism.
After the Treaty of Peace Between the State of Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in which Jordan established diplomatic ties with Israel, Jordan has been an important transit point for Syrian businessmen doing business in the Palestinian territories.
Typically, these events begin with the tolling of the Carillon in the Peace Tower, during which current members of the Canadian Forces ( CF ) arrive at Confederation Square, followed by the Ottawa diplomatic corps, ministers of the Crown, special guests, the Royal Canadian Legion ( RCL ), the royal party ( if present ), and the viceregal party.
France's diplomatic position at the Paris Peace Conference was repeatedly jeopardized by Clemenceau's mistrust of David Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson, and his intense dislike of French President Raymond Poincaré.
The conflict was resolved after the Argentine defeat in the Falkland's by Papal mediation in the Beagle conflict of Pope John Paul II and in the form of a Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1984 between Chile and Argentina ( Tratado de Paz y Amistad ), granting the islands to Chile and most of the Exclusive economic zone to Argentina ; since then, other border disputes with Chile have been resolved via diplomatic negotiations.
Chinese diplomatic failure at the Paris Peace Conference became the incident that touched off the outbreak of the May Fourth Movement, and became known as the " Shandong Problem ".
Israel has full diplomatic relations with Egypt since the signing of the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in 1979.
Israel has full diplomatic relations with Jordan since the signing of the Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace in 1994.
At the time however, the anti-Vatican resentment, combined with Italian diplomatic moves to isolate the Vatican in light of the unresolved Roman Question, contributed to the exclusion of the Vatican from the Paris Peace conference of 1919 ( although it was also part of a historical pattern of political and diplomatic marginalization of the papacy after the loss of the papal states ).
The Valley of Peace initiative is an official joint effort of the Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian governments to promote economic cooperation, and new business initiatives which can help both sides work together, and create a better diplomatic atmosphere and better economic conditions.
Subsequently, under diplomatic and financial pressure from Beijing, he induced the Dalai Lama, a fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate, to postpone indefinitely a proposed and much anticipated visit during Beijing's suppression of controversial riots in Tibet.
Maistre's observations on Russian life, contained in his diplomatic memoirs and in his personal correspondence, were among Tolstoy's sources for his novel War and Peace.
* Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington-Support of the diplomatic training program ;
Nevertheless, another very good diplomatic performance by the Greek side at the Paris Peace Conference, 1946 secured a further enlargement of Greek territory, in the form of the Dodecanese Islands, despite the very strong opposition of Vyacheslav Molotov and the Soviet delegates.
Long well known in diplomatic and journalistic circles, Holbrooke achieved great public prominence when he, together with former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt, brokered a peace agreement among the warring factions in Bosnia that led to the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords, in 1995.
* Peace conference, a diplomatic meeting to end conflict.

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