Search Details

Word: crpcv (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Blatchford, the first Republican to head the Peace Corps, spoke of planned innovations to enhance the program's positive effect on the development of the host country, while CRPCV members called for the abolition of the Peace Corps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Volunteers Blast Peace Corps | 10/22/1969 | See Source »

...former volunteers claimed that since the Peace Corps "supports the status quo," it stands in the way of movements which might bring about meaningful development. The Peace Corps, states the CRPCV in a national position paper isues September 15, "draws attention away from obvious manifestations of U. S. Imperialism" both in the host country and in the United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Volunteers Blast Peace Corps | 10/22/1969 | See Source »

John Price, former chairman of the Boston chapter of the CRPCV, said that notion that the Peace Corps could be apolitical was "ridiculons." By its very presence the Peace Corps gives legitimacy to the government of the host country, he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Volunteers Blast Peace Corps | 10/22/1969 | See Source »

Members of the CRPCV were not the only former Peace Corps workers among those who heard Blatchford speak. Sevcral other foriner volunteers, while raising critieism of some aspects of the Peace Corps, felt that it should be improved rather than a bolished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Volunteers Blast Peace Corps | 10/22/1969 | See Source »

...CRPCV was formed in 1965 and now claims a national membership of 1200. It started out working for change in the Peace Corps but gradually came to a position that it should be discontinued, Price said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Volunteers Blast Peace Corps | 10/22/1969 | See Source »

| 1 |