Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ANDRES ALCALDE Santiago, Chile...
...stories this week illustrate how it goes. To tell how the Peace Corps is really doing, as opposed to what its press agents boast and its critics suspect, correspondents headed for the hinterland to see young people on the job. John Blashill sought out Peace Corpsmen upcountry in Chile and Colombia; Lee Griggs interrupted his watch on the uneasy Congo to fly to Tanganyika, and Herman Nickel from Johannesburg turned up with Peace Corpsmen in Nigeria. Still another set of correspondents here in the U.S. went off on a different trail-to see what Congressmen home for Christmas recess...
SHADING their eyes against the sun, two men talked in the empty schoolyard in the crossroads village of San Manuel, Chile, 60 miles south of Santiago. In the distance loomed the snowcapped Andes; near by, a quacking duck led five grey ducklings in and out of an irrigation ditch. "We had a community meeting last night." said Sandoval Córdoba, the school's headmaster. "It went better than last time. Six men are going to build the chicken house. Five others are interested in the brooder." Replied Emory Tomor, 24, of Reseda, Calif., a member...
...Chile...
...opposition. For a variety of reasons-old Latin fears of Yankee Big Stick intervention, concern over pro-Castro elements at home, an obvious but unconfessed desire to use the example of Cuba as a lever to pry more aid out of Washington-the big ABC powers (Argentina, Brazil and Chile), as well as Ecuador and Mexico, oppose any OAS moves against Castro...