NATION : Peace Corps on Way to East Bloc
President Bush gave a White House send-off today to 121 Peace Corps English teachers, telling them their pioneering mission in Poland and Hungary will play a vital role “in the exhilarating process of building new democracies.”
The volunteers were selected from the thousands of Americans who answered Bush’s call earlier this year for the Peace Corps to help the two East European nations fill the vacuum created by the collapse of Communist rule.
They will be the first members of the Peace Corps to serve in Eastern Europe.
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