Muggler here to see you. Clearly, I was now in the adult realm. I now know that Lee had a Peace Corps background, and he was certainly kind and sympathetic to the PCVs he encountered in Iran, but at this stage in his life he did not live like a Peace Corps volunteer. He was well compensated and given a very nice house. His contract allowed him to ship in his household furniture and belongings which were exotic and collected from all over the world.
Among these treasures was an expensive twelve place setting of top-quality china, crystal and table silver. I got to see the splendor of this set by being included at a V.
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Lawrences when I was convalescing at their home. One night, Lee came home and Anne told him that one of the plates was broken. Lee and Ali had a good relationship; Lee paid him well; Ali was diligent and used to working for foreigners. Lee had one ironclad demand — complete honesty, and this was bound to lead to a clash with the Iranian cultural values about non-confrontation and face saving. Lee asked again what had happened to the plate.
Ali tried to defuse the confrontation and save face by saying that the cat had bumped it off the table. He then ordered Ali to get out all of the china and silver and set out a formal dinner for twelve on the enormous dining table. Lee then retrieved the cat from somewhere and tossed her onto the middle of the table. The surprised cat landed sure-footedly, then carefully tiptoed around the teapot, through a couple of crystal flutes, stepped over a bread plate and around a big dinner plate and jumped off the table and onto the room-sized Persian carpet.
Lee again asked Ali how the plate got broken. Lee then told Ali to put all the dishes away. This incident could have been very bad, and it certainly was not culturally sensitive the way the Peace Corps had tried to train us to be. However, amazingly, both Ali and the cat remained content and loyal to Lee and Anne until his contract was up and the St. The following is an excerpt that involved Lee St. Infected travelers were the main vector in the spread of El Tor. As a defense, Iran set up cholera checkpoints on all the main roads. These were staffed by conscripted Health Corps medical aides who handled the actual injections and army soldiers with rifles who made sure that those who passed either had an official cholera card with them or went over to the health worker to get an injection on the spot.
In most areas of Iranian life, a V. Mard-e-bozorg in Farsi can get around such requirements. One or a combination of these tactics usually is successful. But El Tor was different.
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The army had been put in charge of enforcement. Apparently, when a lowly Iranian soldier is told that no one passes this point without a cholera card or an injection, the consequences of not following this order are severe enough to elicit strict compliance, even in the face of strong social class pressure from a Mard-e-bozorg.
The Khuzistan Water and Power Authority built the Dez dam and ran the electric utility for the province. In Vientiane, the Laotian capital, he shared a house with Dr. His next tour of duty took St. He negotiated an economic program with the late Patrice Lumumba. For this, he received the International Cooperation Administration Meritorious Service Award when he finally—after 17 years abroad—returned to the United States.
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Lawrence enrolled in The Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, and he was there as a student once again when he was asked to join the administrative staff of the newly established Peace Corps. I think the Peace Corps represents the most exciting concept in foreign affairs the U. Within one month of his joining the new organization, he was back in Africa—to conclude successfully the first negotiations for an overseas contract.
This was in Tanganyika, and St.
Lawrence bushwhacked the country from end to end in order to see the exact conditions under which Volunteers would live there. It was an investigation without, as yet, a precedent, and St. Lawrence emerged with the first detailed program after extended talks with Tanganyika political leader Julius Nyerere, who was then Prime Minister. Later on, he visited Tunisia to spell out the details of the first program in that nation. And since he went to Indonesia for the negotiations which resulted in the first Peace Corps program in that nation.
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