Re: U.N. 'furious' as Myanmar aid 'seized'

"pluto" wrote ...
> Good soldier wrote
> >have been doing for hundreds of years and the students, apparently, for
a
week. Note: They were not helping by supplying materials, only unskilled
labor.
> oh oh this sounds like the peace corp of the 60's
> these young people were the "antiwar pacifists"

many were, yes.

> - refused draft and exchanged for peace corp

draft could not be refused without consequences. peace corp could provide
deferment, but not exemption from draft.

> that was the time when these usans knew very little of malaya/malaysia--
they thought the malayans lived up the coconut trees.

egad! I'd not known the peace corps sent their most-severely clueless to
malaysia.

> one got his teeth pulled out before coming here because there were no
denists here.
> all the couples used contraceptives/condoms

sounds prudent, no? (the contraception, that is)
 . .. btw, did the toothless one ever reveal how many teeth were still in
place before all were pulled? ;~)

> all were paid the "local pays"

peace corps volunteers were given local living stipends, yes.

>but did not tell us that a large wad was kept in their usa bank waiting
for
them when they returned.

k pluto, pray tell who told you this, or might you have a link to such
information?

> once a month, the head of the peace corp of each state, re****ted to
jalan
broadrick of the state progress-- whatever it was.
> they were the fifth column

peace corps definitely was intended contra the spread of communist
sympathies.
recall that in years prior to JFK's creation of peace corps in 1961, that
soviets had been sending aid workers into the field in many countries?