European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 15, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Thursday december 15.1994 peace corps backers rip gop plan ,. -. .".".  a a Republican proposal Totake away the peace corps Independence could put volunteers in jeopardy and undermine the Trust the Volunteer Agency has built in poor countries Over the past 33 years say Agency officials and supporters. Sen. Mitch Mccohnell of Kentucky who becomes chairman of the Senate appropriations foreign operations subcommittee in january said monday that he wants to put the peace corps under state department control and make the now autonomous Agency answer to . Foreign policy  whose wife Elaine Chao is a former peace corps director plans to make the proposal part of a foreign Aid overhaul Bill. The Bill also Calls for eliminating the Agency for International development and specific assistance programs for Africa and putting the .information Agency under the state department. In an interview tuesday Mcconnell said that the peace corps has been generally successful but that i Don t think we ought to have americans operating abroad who Don t think they re part of the . Foreign policy  the idea provoked an outcry from officials and for Mer volunteers of the corps that president Kenned created to spread american Good will and know How around the  the american Public has the View that peace corps is a government program that works peace corps director Carol Bellamy said. Why would you take an Agency that has shown it is reasonably innovative and efficient and merge it with something that is not known to be very  r. Sargent Shriver the peace corps first director and Kennedy s brother in Law said the idea to put the peace corps under the state department was first proposed in 1961 to the Secretary of state then Dean Rusk he rejected it Shriver said with a very succinct an farsighted statement the peace corps makes its greatest contribution to foreign policy by not Beine a part of it the reason people Volunteer by the thousands to get into the peace corps is because to some extent it s not merely an Extension of the foreign policy Shriver said. In fact some people of the peace corps even while they Are serving in the peace corps have Bee known to object publicly to the foreign policy of the United  Charles Dambach president of the i5,000-member National peace corps association of former volunteers said he had received Many Calls from member concerned about Mcconnel s proposal. Making the peace corps part of the foreign policy establishment they believe would severely hamper the corps work. Volunteers Success depends on convincing local people and governments that peace corps Only motive is to help not to serve some ulterior motive . Foreign policy they say. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago dec. 15,1984 William Schroe Der survived a partially paralysing stroke his second setback since he became the world s second recipient of a permanent artificial heart. Motion in his weakened right Side improved his doctor said. 20 year Sago dec. 15,1974 meeting French president Valery Giscard d Estwing in a Caribbean Summit president  for the United states and its oldest ally to face together the Energy economic food and Security problems of the next Quarter Century. 30 year Sago dec. 15,1964 the supreme court unanimously upheld two cases involving the heart of the 1964 civil rights act the Public accommodation Section. 40 years ago dec. 15,1954 the United states ruled out any Deal with China to Swap 35 chinese students in America for the 11 . Airmen imprisoned by the chinese. 50 year Sago dec. 15,1944 Reuter Dis patches reported that it. Gen. Courtney h. Hodges . 1st army opened another drive on the Duren Germany sector As the 5th army div jumped off from Gey five Miles to the South. World War ii 50 years ago today dec.15 1v94.4 american soldiers invade Mindoro Island and meet Little resistance near san Agustin South of the main philippine Island of Luzon japanese Kamikaze planes hit a . Escort Carrier and two destroyers. The besieged japanese Garrison at Bahamo Burma escapes on the soviet front red army troops Cross the Lipely River North of Budapest Hungary and push into Czechoslovakia at Sahy. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc. The world almanac of world War ii Bison books corp., 1981 a deadly Plant blast wreckage covers the site of the Terra industries farm chemical from the blast punctured one or both of the Plant s two 15,000 ph8? car Iowa following a explosion tuesday ton refrigerated ammonia storage tanks sending a Cloud of to that killed four workers and injured 18. Eight people remained ten tally deadly fumes Rolline across the my Ouri River the a Tali Zed Early wednesday Hoo in serious co Diu 2,500 people from four towns were evacuated after shrapnel Iowa s biggest n gives in allows ill boy to hitch ride to croatian Home by James w. Brosnan Scripps Howard news service -. Washington a 2-year-Oldcroatian heart patient will be going Home for Christmas after All on air Force wings. The defense department relented tuesday and 4 agreed to allow air Force medical planes to take Ivan Pozaric from a children s Hospital in Memphis term.,to Zagreb Croatia. His trip is set to begin Friday. Most of the itinerary consists of regularly scheduled flights. Though details Are still being worked out Ivan could be in a Hospital in his Hometown of Krapna by tuesday the decision to allow the trip came after rep. Harold Ford d-tenn., called Deputy defense Secretary John Deutch on tues Day Deutch overruled Pentagon officials who said Ivan s condition was t serious enough to the justify use of military planes. I m ecstatic now said or. William Novick a paediatric heart surgeon and medical director of the International children s heart foundation in Mem Phis. I be been working on this for Al most seven  normally the state and defense depart ments consider cases in which patients Are being brought to the United states for treatment aboard military planes. Novick brought Ivan to the unite states commercially four months ago to re pair birth defects in his heart. The failure of Ivans diaphragm a partition that separates the Chest and abdominal cavities meant constant need for a Respirator and thus movement by ambulance. Novick said he believes Ivan now needs the motivation of being Home sur rounded by family to recover. Only Ivan s Mother Zdravka Pozaric accompanied him to Memphis. Novick found that a private air ambulance trip would Cost the foundation More than $46,000. That Cost would have prevented the foundation from bringing four or five other children to Memphis for heart surgery. The air Force trip will Cost the foundation $10,000. Under pressure from Ford the state department said that since Ivan was a foreign National going Home instead of a foreigner coming to the states it was up to the defense department to decide whether to transport the boy