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...concessions lend to the appearance that the U.S. is participating in great European events, they in fact do little more than make a virtue out of a necessity. The now canceled missiles would have had a 280- mile range, allowing them to carry only far enough to hit Czechoslovakia or within the borders of a rapidly unifying Germany. And neither Germany shares Bush's enthusiasm for the retention of the present Lance missiles, with a 78- mile range. Bush's stepped-up campaign for a conventional-forces treaty, limiting the Soviet Union to 195,000 troops beyond its borders...
...shorts, digging wells in Tanzania. That image will need some revision when volunteers start arriving in the world's newest developing area -- Eastern Europe. Agreements have been signed for 60-member teams to begin working in Hungary and Poland this summer, and a similar program is being negotiated for Czechoslovakia. In the initial phase, all the volunteers -- whose average age has increased from 24 to 31 since the program began -- will teach English. But the corps is prepared eventually to offer instruction in small-business management, agriculture and, says one official, "just about anything that will do some good...
...digging wells in Ethiopia and advising on animal husbandry in Guatemala, the 6,500- member Peace Corps will turn to a new frontier this year: Eastern Europe. Starting in June, 120 volunteers will begin to leave for Hungary and Poland; an additional 60 corps members may soon go to Czechoslovakia. Peace Corps director Paul Coverdell says the first group will teach English, while future plans call for volunteers to assist in small-business development and environmental protection...
Mejstrik's strong belief in the power of the student press stems from his own experiences: his paper helped his university become the center of student protest in Czechoslovakia, he said...
...There was a rule in Czechoslovakia that a magazine from one university could not be sent to another. We established a student press and information center in Prague in 1988 and through that we established networks. My university was the first to strike and to be cracked down on by police," he said...