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TV 50 editorials

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During the late 1980’s I did a number of these TV public service announcements pushing the ASPC.  Imagine how much healthier our and Russia’s relations with the world would be today had we built it 20+ years ago.

Feel free to do your own PSAs on TV or to just a couple friends… or pests.

While at it, why not ask past supporters and now Senators Boxer and Feinstein to bring back the American Soviet Peace Corps (ASPC) and link it with the American World Service Corps (AWSC).

TV50 – EDITORIALS TWO

BY DWAYNE HUNN  PEACE CORPS#2 March  1988

GRANDPA HENRY

USED TO SAY “SHARE

A FOXHOLE WITH A

STRANGER AND

YOU’LL COME AWAY

WITH A FRIEND.”

AMERICANS AND

SOVIETS SHOULD NOT

SHARE OR FACE EACH

OTHER ACROSS FUTURE

FOXHOLES.  INSTEAD

THEY SHOULD

SHARE A SOVIET

AMERICAN PEACE

CORPS WHERE COLLEGE

GRADUATES FROM

EACH NATION TRAIN,

WORK AND LIVE

TOGETHER.  A SAPC

THAT EMULATES THE

PEACE CORPS SUCCESS

IN:

1) WORKING ON THE

BASIC PROBLEMS OF

POVERTY

2) LEARNING ABOUT

THE WORLD’S TRUE

NEEDS &

3) MAKING FRIENDS

TREATIES BREAK

DOWN WHEN RADICAL

LEADERSHIP CHANGES

TAKE PLACE IN

GOVERNMENTS WITH

PHILOSOPHIES AS

DISPARATE AS OURS.

THAT’S ONE REASON

WHY WE SHOULD TAKE

ADVANTAGE OF THE

GORBACHEV/REAGAN

ERA AND

INSTITUTIONALIZE A

SAPC.

SHOW GRAPHIC

IF 20,000 SOVIETS

AND AMERICANS

SERVED TOGETHER IN

LESSER DEVELOPED

COUNTRIES OVER THE

NEXT 10 YEARS, NO

MORE BERLIN WALLS

WOULD GO UP AND

ONE WOULD COME

DOWN.

GRAPHIC OUT

WRITE CONGRESS.

TELL THEM

AMERICA’S

LEADERSHIP SHOULD

GO TO GORBACHEV AT

THE JUNE SUMMIT

AND SAY “ASK NOT

WHAT YOU CAN DO

FOR JUST YOUR

COUNTRY.  BUT ASK

WHAT, TOGETHER, WE

CAN DO FOR THE

WORLD.”

.PA    ————————

TV50 – EDITORIAL ONE

BY DWAYNE HUNN PEACE CORPS #1

DID YOU KNOW THAT

UNTIL 1987

MILITARY MARCHING

BANDS HAD A LARGER

BUDGET THAN THE

PEACE CORPS?

THAT THE

PEACE CORPS 1986

BUDGET OF

APPROXIAMTELY $110

MILLION EQUALS ITS

1966 BUDGET?  WHAT

HAS CHANGED,

HOWEVER, IS THE

NUMBER OF

VOLUNTEERS SERVING

IN LDCs — FROM A

1966 PEAK OF

15,500 TO 5,500 IN

THE WORLD’S NEED

HAS NOT LESSENED.

WHAT HAS CHANGED,

OVER THE 25 YEARS

SINCE PRESIDENT

KENNEDY STARTED

THE PEACE CORPS,

IS THE DIRECTION

OUR LEADERSHIP HAS

GIVEN OUR NATION

IN DEVELOPING A

GLOBAL STRATEGY

FOR PEACE.

IT COSTS

$20,000 TO PUT A

PCV IN THE FIELD

FOR A YEAR.

TRANSFERRING THE

MONEY NEEDED TO

BUILD ONE B-1

BOMBER WOULD

DOUBLE THE SIZE OF

PEACE CORPS.

HELPING POOR

COUNTRIES BECOME

SELF SUFFICIENT

MAKES THEM FUTURE

TRADING MARKETS

AND HELPS

THEM REJECT

RADICAL “ISMS”.

ENLARGING      THE

PEACE CORPS MAKES

US A SMARTER

NATION AND THAT

WILL SAVE US FROM

MORE COSTLY

PROBLEMS LATER ON.