Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wagener said she hopes to join the SAC in sponsoring future job fairs, and SAC President Chittick said the group plans to sponsor another fair in November...
...volunteers, which to me is the most admirable aspect of the Peace Corps? So many retirees in this country become trapped in stultifying, deadly boring existences. The Peace Corps offers usefulness and >ael> people Why should college students, with all their opportunities, have more right than retirees to join the Peace Corps...
Finally, Schwinn's implication that by offering minimal job placement to returning volunteers, the Peace Corps is attracting more materialistic people, is ludicrous. Nobody joins the Peace Corps to make money. If the Peace Corps abandoned returning volunteers completely, many idealistic people might feel they could not afford to join. Does Schwinn want volunteer programs reserved for the wealthy...
...Camp David nearly five years ago. It was Arafat who foiled any chance of progress last week by refusing to approve official Jordanian participation in the talks. And Jordan's King Hussein, virtually held hostage in his own land by the intimidating presence of Palestinian guerrillas, would rather not join the ranks of the martyrs--men like Sartawi and Anwar Sadat, for example, who dared to break with the PLO leadership and pain dearly for their apostasy...
...Arafat replied that he could not give the King a mandate to speak for the Palestinians. Arafat reportedly also put aside the idea of authorizing certain Palestinians who are not members of the P.L.O. to participate in future negotiations. When Hussein proposed that a joint PL.O.-Jordanian team should join negotiations over the Reagan plan, Arafat complained that the U.S. initiative was weak because it did not give sufficient support to the rights of the Palestinians. Quoting an old Arabic saying, an Arafat aide grumbled, "Hussein is trying to sell us the fish...