Our grant proposal contended that some Buck Trust money should be spent on establishing a model training center at Marin's World College West where 50 Peace Corps Volunteers would train alongside 50 Soviets for three months, then serve together for 21 months in a developing country.
Your Soviet roommate and you -- a Donald Trump acolyte -- would be serving and rooming together in the same school, village, work site, etc., where you both could share, debate, and scramble your commie and capitalistic predilections for the betterment of mankind.
Our proposal contended that if the Peace Corps made this an ongoing program and did it with 20, 30, or 100,000 Soviets and Americans, a future cold or hot war between these two giants would evaporate into blue skied memories, friendships, connections and humorously swaggering vodka and beer bouts.
In addition, the developing nations of the world would smile with all the money that could be switched from warfare to development fairs.
This US Soviet Peace Corps proposal made it into a playoff Buck Trust Grant round, but was not chosen as one of the 3 funded Major Proposals.
Not ever having been smart enough to know when to hang up my cleats, I continued running the bases to get "da good, da bad, and da ugly" to serve and do nice things together.
I wrote on more than one occasion to the Soviet Consulate on Green Street in San Francisco. Wrote Congresswoman Boxer. Wrote op-eds and did a couple television public affairs segments. Not much seemed to be happening.
One afternoon a group titled something like "Beyond War" had a San Francisco event at which the Deputy Consul General of the Soviet Union was to be the guest speaker. I went. During the question and answer period, I was one of those he called on in this crowd of 150 or so.
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