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Members of the Comittee of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers clashed last night with Peace Corps director Joseph Blatchford at a meeting in the Leverett House...
...Blatchford, the first Republican to head the Peace Corps, spoke of planned innovations to enhance the program's positive effect on the development of the host country, while CRPCV members called for the abolition of the Peace Corps...
...BOSTON-"The Peace Corps is lily-white, and we've got to change that," Peace Corps director Joe Blatchford said in a radio interview Monday...
Negroes applying for the Peace Corps have been three times less likely to be selected than whites, Blatchford said. He cited both the elaborate 16-page application form and the written reference system as unintentionally discriminating against minority group members who haven't made a career of filling out forms...
Application forms are now being simplified, and in the future, references will be obtained in person or by phone when necessary, Blatchford said...