Word: hesse
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Responding to a reporter's suggestion that the Peace Corps may be a form of "cultural imperialism," Hess said. "I strongly hope we aren't used as an arm of U.S. foreign policy...
Plans for expansion last year were suspended when Congress refused to meet the Peace Corps's request for more money. Hess said he hopes Congress will appropriate at least $88 million for the next fiscal year...
Donald K. Hess, who assumed the office last month, said in a press conference that more Peace Corps volunteers are needed, "especially people outside the college campuses...
...Hess attributed a recent decline in the numbers of Peace Corps applicants to a "new wave of isolationism." He said the quality of service has improved with the decline, but added. "America as a whole seems to have lost interest in what we're doing...
...Understandably the aura of glamor which the Peace Corps had during the Kennedy Administration has died, since many Americans--and students in particular--are refocusing their attention to domestic problems," Hess said. "But the needs of the world are massive and continue to expand...