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Upon completion of the program, a participant may go directly into the Peace Corps or VISTA, without completing their normal training programs...
...Peace Corps, as well as VISTA, its domestic counterpart, are unable to meet their manpower needs. At last count, 24 countries had made requests for Peace Corps volunteers which could not be met. The most conservative assessors of the Peace Corps manpower situation estimate that, if the Peace Corps were made an alternative to the draft, the number of qualified applicants would more than double overnight...
Draft revision with more realistic opportunities for alternative service would improve the quality of both VISTA and Peace Corps volunteers. The "evasion mentality" now dominant among students on American campuses would largely disappear if volunteer service became a legitimate option. And the "unpatriotic" stigma would be removed from those willing to serve their country, but unwilling to fight or further a complex and dirty war in Vietnam. Revision would be the first step toward making the selective service genuinely selective; the sooner this step is taken, the better...
...Though Diana, as lead singer, carries the heaviest load, they divide their earnings evenly. Using last year's take of $250,000 each (it may hit $400,000 this year), they moved their families into three modest duplexes on the same street in Detroit's northwest Buena Vista district. The homes are luxuryless, just spartanly comfortable, and reflect the girls' sensible, unawed view of their instant riches. "You know, my father didn't want me to get into this business," muses Diana. "When I left, he said, 'If you don't make...
...work with a social service agency (more than 100 returned Volunteers are now taking part in the Office of Economic Opportunity's War on Poverty; more than 10% of these are serving as VISTA Volunteers...