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With Africa, as with other things, distance lends enchantment. Instead of comparing their experience to an ordinary job at home, the young corpsmen weigh it against the intensity of Conrad's portraits of Graham Greene's matter-of-fact spirituality, and their anticipations resist all attempts to bring them into line with actuality; the ideas have a life of their...
...mostly from Russia and Eastern Europe, aimed at convincing Washington that Hanoi, like Barkis, was willing. At home, the echoes from this campaign could be heard in various appeals to the President to stop the bombing. They came from a group of 28 prominent clergymen, from 400 former Peace Corpsmen, from thousands of "peace fasters" in 200 cities who restricted themselves to diets of rice and liquids for three days...
Japan's new Overseas Youth Volunteers are Asia's first Peace Corpsmen, and though they so far number fewer than 100, they represent another indicator of Sato's outward thrust. Stationed from Southeast Asia to East Africa, they are skilled in auto repair and agriculture, nursing and nutrition, use their spare time to teach such Japanese native skills as origami and karate. Despite their Asian eyes and skin color, the Japanese Peace Corpsmen find it as challenging to relate to underdeveloped Asia as do their round-eyed American counterparts. For all their own appetite for sashimi...
...benefits of this more modest scheme for national service are the benefits of participatory education: an exciting bankroll of experience, a few years of insulation from the work-a-day world. Psychologists and ex-Peace Corpsmen are generally the most insistent supporters of such plans...
...doctors and medical personnel from 13 other nations; 153 American doctors took furloughs from their private practices for two-month voluntary stints with Project Viet Nam; West Germany has sent its hospital ship, Helgoland; and Canada donated equipment for ten 200-bed portable emergency hospitals. G.I. medics and Navy corpsmen, resting from battle duty, have treated hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, and there are 21 U.S. military medical teams ministering full time to civilians; by the end of June, 39,700 patients were being treated each month, and medical facilities will be able to cope with more than...