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Peace Corps seeks help
Recruiters
to visit EMU
Recruiting representatives
for the Peace Corps will be at
the University March 2-5,
seeking volunteers for two
year overseas assignments
that begin in the next 3-12
months
Recruiters for the agency
will be at an information
booth in the EMU lobby from
9 a m to 4 p.m and a film
seminar hosted by former
volunteers is scheduled for
March 3 at 3:30 p.m in the
EMU Forum Scheduled in
terviews will be held in the
Career Planning &
Placement Office in Susan
Campbell Hall. Students
must sign up in advance for
the interviews
The drive comes 10 days
after the Peace Corps was
granted its full “indepen
dence” as a separate agency
reporting directly to the ex
ecutive branch of govern
ment For the last 11 years,
the Peace Corps has been a
part of ACTION, the national
volunteer agency
According to Tim McCor
mack, Director of Recruiting
for the Pacific Northwest.
Emerald graphic
approximately 5,500 Peace
Corps volunteers are cur
rently serving in 60 develop
ing nations in Africa, Asia.
Latin America, and the
Pacific Nearly 90,000 Amer
icans have served with the
Peace Corps since the first
volunteers arrived in Ghana
in 1961
The skills being sought for
Peace Corps positions in
clude both degreed and
non-degreed persons, with
current emphasis being
placed on the selection of
persons who are qualified to
work in either fisheries or
forestry programs Academic
credits in the biological
sciences will qualify most
applicants for Peace Corps
fisheries assignments
Other specialties sought
include graduates in math,
the physical and life
sciences, French, home
economics and nutrition,
health, business, and engin
eering, while practical ex
perience in the skilled trades
is also desired
McCormack explained that
applications can be accept
ed for up to a year before a
person wishes to become a
volunteer Applicants must
be U S citizens, and if mar
ried, have no children There
is no upper age limit, with
good health the only limiting
factor
Inquiries can also be dir
ected to Paul Bartel, Univer
sity Peace Corps Coordina
tor, who can be contacted in
Susan Campbell Hall Bartel
says there will be a gathering
of former Peace Corps
volunteers from the greater
Eugene area March 2 at 7:30
p.m in the EMU All former
volunteers are welcome to
attend
Calls for arms freeze
European fears nuclear war
By Barbara Morgan
Ot the Emerald
Limited nuclear war in Eu
rope, suggested as a possibility
by Pres Ronald Reagan and
other American and Soviet of
ficials, would result in a
holocaust far worse than that
experienced during World War
II, says Peter Jones, an activist
in the European peace
movement
Europeans '‘bitterly resent
being seen as the possible
guinea pig for the military to
experiment with the idea of
limited nuclear war that won't
actually involve their own two
territories," Jones said at a
recent forum on a petition to
freeze nuclear arms production
To prevent a holocaust, or
ganizations are working
throughout Europe for global
disarmament Jones said the
first step is a nuclear freeze, and
petitions already are circulating
in the United States calling for
one
One of the petitions states,
''To improve national and inter
national security, the United
States and the Soviet Union
should stop the nuclear arms
race. Specifically, they should
adopt a mutual freeze on the
testing, production and
development of nuclear
weapons, and of missiles, and
new aircraft designed primarily
to deliver nuclear weapons
This is an essential first step
toward lessening the nuclear
arsenals. ”
Nuclear disarmament has
become a major issue in Europe
largely because of the heavy
concentration of nuclear
weapons on that continent,
Jones said Currently, North At
lantic Treaty Organization (NA
TO) countries have 7,000 tac
tical nuclear weapons in Europe
and Warsaw Pact countries
have between 5,000 and 6,000
If 100 of those were detonated
toward cities of more than
200,000 people, one-third of
Europe's population would be
killed
"So much for General Haig's
limited nuclear war as far as
Europe is concerned," Jones
said
While the two sides obviously
have sufficient arms, Jones said
both the Soviet Union and the
United States are pushing to
bring in more weapons — the
United States with the cruise
missiles and the Soviets with the
SS-20s He said each side ar
gues that the weapons are
needed to offset build-up by the
other side
"The fact is," Jones said,
"when you've already got
13.000 tactical nuclear
weapons in Europe, what the
hell does it matter who's
ahead7''
Nuclear war will not start in
Europe, however, Jones said It
will begin in the Middle East or
some other Third World area
“The forces of Europe will be
put on the alert and as the crisis
develops then will come the
moment when General Haig
fires his trial nuclear warning
shot, or a trigger-happy general
starts something off by ac
cident."
Once that war starts, he said,
things can easily get out of
control When fired, nuclear
weapons exert a great elec
tomagnetic pulse which can cut
off communication This will
create a major dilemma for a
battlefield commander who
knows the war has begun, but
who has lost touch with the
base, Jones said
"And it’s in that kind of situa
tion that war will begin in Eu
rope — war through crisis mis
management."
That is what those in the
peace movement are afraid of,
although they are not anti
American, as some have
charged, Jones said
"What we are against is the
U S military-industrial complex
and the Soviet bureaucratic
military complex and the plans
they have for our continent "
Thursday, February 25, 1982