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The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, October 15, 1980-Page 5
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* By MARYEM RAF ANI
Peace Corps .Director Richard
Celeste called yesterday for the
initiation of a national voluntary ser-
vice program for persons between the
ages of 21 and 26, and the adoption of a
"'development tax" on all international
trade in military weapons and ar-
maments.
Celeste, who also proposed the
creation of a "Peace Corps Community
Fellows" service program in the United
States staffed by returning or returned
corps volunteers and Third World
citizens, stressed the need for these
changes during a speech on the future
of the Peace Corps.
HE SPOKE before a standing-room-
only crowd of more than 250 persons in
Rackham Ampitheater. The address
was part of the celebration com-
memorating the 20th anniversary of the
Peace Corps being held at the Univer-
sity this week.
"The Peace Corps experience of the
past two decades," Celeste said,
"suggests that our nation should
initiate a national voluntary service
program in which every young person
between the ages of 21 and 26 is in-
vited-and encouraged-to serve."
'The Peace Corps director said oppor-
tunities for service in this program
would be in both the civilian and
military sectors, but did not elaborate
further on the specifics of the plan.
CELESTE ALSO said the develop-
ment tax on armaments would be used
by international development agencies
to "move us not just symbolically, but
in reality toward that ancient and com-
pelling vision that one day we shall beat
our swords into plowshares."
The Peace Corps Community Fellows
program, Celeste said, would be staffed
by returning volunteers and Third
World citizens who would serve as fir-
sthand advocates on global issues in
American communities.
"It is time that we at the Peace Corps
stop just talking and act to bring Third
World citizens to this country to work as
volunteers in our communities," he
said.
CELESTE ADDED that the study of
foreign languages is essential to this
task. "We need to recruit and place
Third World volunteers to help this
country rediscover language skills that
have been allowed to languish, and
create new ones," he said.
Celeste said the years ahead
"challenge the Peace Corps not simply
to rededicate itself to its original goals,
but to reshape itself to pursue these im-
peratives." The director said the Peace
Corps must strengthen its focus on
programs in areas of basic human
needs, including:
" ENERGY development providing
village-based alternatives;
* Food production that enhances
nutrition, not income;
" Participation for women that brings
the benefits, not the burdens, of change,
and;
* Practical education that offers
skills to the poor people of the world.
"OUR WORLD has been torn by wars
which have forced all people to consider
whether humankind can aspire to true
peace and justice," Celeste said, "or
whether-we are to pursue conflict and
false images of security."
He added that despite growing
pessimism, many Americans were still
actively working for peace. "Eighty,
thousand Peace Corps volunteers toiled
alongside Third World citizens in 85 dif-
Daiy rnoto y uyvD VIDARRI
DICK CELESTE, current director of the Peace Corps, suggests a national
voluntary service program for persons between the ages of 21 and 26 and a
"developmental tax" on all international trade in military weapons and ar-
maments.
ferent countries," he pointed out. of the United States, must face is to
"Volunteers taught children and fashion social, political, and economic
trained teachers. They labored with institutions "through which we can
farmers to expand food prodiction." share in building a more just, a more
Celeste said the challenge of the 1980s humane, and, thus, a more peaceful
which the Peace Corps, and the people world."
Muskie jeered during
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ients for broader confrontations;"
Muskie said. "We have a direct
rational interest in helping devloping
nations reconcile the combustible
disparity between a privileged few and
,i embittered multitude."
Furthermore, Muskie called on
studebts to join the Peace Corps'and
46mmit themselves to the respon-
sibility of improving the world.
Responding to the chants of "No draft,
n~l war,"Muskie drifted from his
piepared text and angrily challenged
the hecklers to join the Corps.
"YOU THINK that life is hard for
you," Muskie said to the protesters,
"Why don't you join the Peace Corps
and find out what hardship is?
"You who are so busy raising your
voice (in protest) . . . that you don't
have time to raise your hands to help
those in need," Muskie boomed. "I call
on you young people to take that
challenge."
a ; Shapiro, who had been:repeatedly in-;
terrupted by the hecklers, finally said
after attempting to present an introduc-
)S speech
tion over the chants, "I'm really quite
flattered . . . It never occurred to me
that the president of the University of
Michigan is so important in world af-
fairs.",
SARGENT SHRIVER, in his speech,
urged students to abandon the self-
oriented attitudes that he said charac-
terized the last decade and adopt a
commitment to helping others.
In contrast to the eager idealism of
the 1960's, today "we're hunkered
down, trying to make sure we keep
what we've got," Shriver said.
IN CLOSING, Shriver also urged
students to join the Corps. "Let's make.
the world safe not only for democracy
but safe for humanity," he said.
The Peace Corps kickedoff its birth-
day celebration Monday:night with .a
speech by Tarzia Vittachi, deputy
executive director of UNICEF and con-
tinued all day, yesterday with various.
seminars, discussions, receptions, and
a speech ,by Peace Corps Director:
Richard Geleste on the future of the
organization.
ceremonies marking the 20th anniver-
sary of the founding of the Peace Corps.
"He said students could do something,
and something meaningful."
FOUR DAYS later, the Guskins at-
tended a speech by Rep. Chester
Bowles- (D-Conn.), who called for the
establishment of an international civil
service that would send doctors,
agricultural experts, and teachers to
needy countries throughout the world.
Bowles, the Guskins recalled, spoke of
his own son's involvement in Ghana in a
Peace Corps-type assignment, giving a
practical example of what Kennedy had
spoken about theoretically.
Alan Guskin said one of his former
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nt to a local restaurant Alan Guskin received his doctorate in
tter to the editor of the social psychology in 1968 and is curren-
udents to apply their tly chancellor of the University of
igh direct participation Wisconsin-Parkside. Judy Guskin
veloped areas. of the received her doctorate in educational
psychology in 1970 and is involved in
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overwhelming, Alan uskn recollec-
ted. "Literally tens and scores would
come asking how they could help
organize such a program."
"Campus was energized by Ken-
nedy's and Bowles' speeches," Judy
Guskin said. The Guskins, along with
other students and faculty members,
formed the Americans Committed to
World Responsibility, a group commit-
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