Word: cd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ecuador Volunteers miss the point when they contend that the presence of Peace Corps staff arouses local resentment. Resentment is there, all right, but its target is not so much the staff as the Volunteers. No matter who supervised them, the presence of large numbers of Americans as teachers, CD workers, etc. would serve to remind Latins--and Africans and Asians--that they still lack enough trained people of their own for certain jobs...
...favored child among Corps' projects has become community development, and the aim of CD, says Frank Mankiewicz, Corps director for Latin America, "is nothing less than a complete change, reversal--revolution if you wish--in the social and economic patterns of the countries to which we are accredited." The Corps' job is to "give the people we work with an awareness of where the tools are to enable them to assert their political power...
...secretary's heart almost jumps out of her mouth as the civil defense buzzer sounds a Yellow Warning. The secretary runs to the principal. The principal runs to the phone and calls CD communications. The line is busy. Since time is of the essence, he must assume the worst. Pale and trembling, he assembles staff and students in the schoolyard and issues the ominous command: Go home as fast...
...most other communities, the Cambridge CD effort is proceeding at a slow rate. The MTA has posted shelter signs in Central, Kendall, and Harvard stations providing "raw space" for 8,106 people. Not all of this space is readily available, however, and none if it has been stocked with supplies. The local authorities have sent out over 200 license forms to the owners of potential shelter space, and, if these licenses are signed, the process of making and stocking the areas can begin. But according to Edmund Burke, Cambridge Civil defense Co-ordinator, the forms "are coming in awfully slowly...
M.I.T and Harvard have the shelter license forms. But according to Robert B. Tonis, Harvard's Chief of Police and Security and Civil Defense director, the University is "still in the process of looking the plans over," and "trying to iron out difficulties with the local CD authorities." If the College does sign the papers, the government will mark certain designated areas as public shelters, and proceed to stock them with bulgar crushed wheat) biscuits and other supplies at the cost or about $4 per person. Thus the government expense to provide shelter for the University alone will...