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...Amazonian trees, vines, shrubs, a waterfall, a stream and leafy ground cover, as well as lizards, snakes and frogs. From the visitors' platform one can take in the full glory of a complete ecosystem almost ten stories above the Inner Harbor, and at the same time view the vista of a redeveloped Baltimore embracing the horizon...
...KNOW THE Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) is to know it would not long survive the Reagan era. The Office of Management and Budget marked the program for termination earlier this year and it now appears the program will not exist after fiscal year...
Born in the early days of the Great Society, when Americans had more faith in visible hands than in their invisible counterparts, VISTA was created in the belief that Americans might be willing to devote a year of their lives to the non-military service of their country. Since 1964, 70,000 did, establishing credit unions, job programs, small energy projects and a wide variety of other activities that helped poor people take control of their own lives...
...benefits VISTA gave to communities it covered, the volunteers it employed and the nation it served are not the kind that show up dramatically on graphs; consequently, VISTA is probably doomed. But even if VISTA's loss may not diminish the gross national product, we will be a poorer nation without it. VISTA was among a group of programs that, for all their problems, announced to the world that the American government saw what was wrong with this country and tried to change it. And perhaps more importantly, VISTA was conceived in the belief that there were ordinary people...
...from social integration is yet to be proved. It is all very well to mumble about the glorious prospect of cultural exchange, but no one is sure that such exchanges breed enhancement. A loftier argument is that the nation, as a whole, would be improved. Perhaps. The old democratic vista of Whitman and Emerson, the transcendentalist democracy of one for one and one for all sounds quite fine; it always has. Since that goal has never been achieved, however, one may argue that it is simply another tenet of American hypocrisy, or, less harshly, that it is a goal incompatible...