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...Joseph Blatchford, Peace Corps Director
...having an instinct for the jugular. Actually, Agnew aims slightly higher. During the Bob Hope Desert Classic three months ago, he hit a drive that bounced off the head of Golf Pro Doug Sanders. Last week the game was tennis. The Vice President and Peace Corps Director Joseph Blatchford were paired for the Administration in a doubles match against a congressional team of New York Senator Jacob Javits and Connecticut Congressman Lowell Weicker. Blatchford stood poised in the forecourt, waiting for the Vice President's serve. It arrived−bouncing off Blatchford's cranium. Blatchford retreated quickly...
...However, Blatchford argued that the PC is independent of other agents of U. S. foreign policy. It is interested only in the welfare of the peoples it works with, and is and should be apolitical, he said...
Members of the CRPCV were not the only former Peace Corps workers among those who heard Blatchford speak. Sevcral other foriner volunteers, while raising critieism of some aspects of the Peace Corps, felt that it should be improved rather than a bolished...
Members of the CRPPCV were also on hand to question Blatchford at Tufts on Monday night and at Boston University Tuesday afternoon. They stayed to discuss their position with those present when Blatchford left after an hour and a half of discussion...