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...first year, when there were 526 volunteers in 13 countries, the corps has grown apace, now has 10,380 volunteers at work in 46 countries from Afghanistan to Venezuela. Its annual appropriation has risen from $30 million to this year's $114.1 million. Fifty percent of the Corpsmen are teachers, the rest are involved in rural and urban-community development, health projects, agriculture and public works...
...Herewith the rest of the story on the bombing of the Metropole [Dec. 10]. Two floors were occupied by the out-pat clinic of the Navy Station Hospital. Twenty-two hospital corpsmen lived in the Metropole. Sixteen were injured in the blast; 14, though injured, spent the next twelve hours aiding the injured as well as carrying out their assigned hospital tasks. On the "blast" side of the Metropole, doctors' offices, treatment rooms, an eye clinic, the X-ray department and bacteriology laboratory were demolished. In the main hospital building, two patients were injured. But assistance by a surgical...
...possible emergency. Every day or two, big Air Force hospital planes drop into Saigon and other airfields in South Viet Nam, pick up as many as 60 patients each, and fly them to Clark Field in the Philippines under the constant care of a doctor, nurses and corpsmen. "What we've done," says Colonel Neel, "is to bring management to the battlefield. It is no longer a matter of sending casualties to the rear and hoping there will be room for them. We make sure there is always room." And thanks to improvements in all sorts of equipment, surgical...
...Ideals. Like his boss, Moyers tempers his ideals with hard-headed pragmatism. Last March, addressing a group of Peace Corpsmen, he urged them to "pursue the ideals of a Joan of Arc with the political prowess of an Adam Clayton Powell. Whatever you say about Joan, her purpose was noble. And whatever you say about Adam, his politics is effective." The word effective crops up repeatedly in bis conversation. "There is no substitute for the effective use of political skills to advance the cause of a great idea," he argues. "Ideas are great arrows, but there...
...best pilot model for a pacification program. No fewer than 10,000 marines stood guard recently while the peasants near Danang brought in their rice crop free of the Viet Cong-who are accustomed to seizing a large part of it for their own supplies. Navy doctors and corpsmen are treating more than 500 civilians a day in forward military Marine areas. To the peasants lined up for sick call, the marines hand out food, clothes, toys and soap (donated in 100-ton lots of slightly used bathtub bars by the Sheraton and Hilton hotel chains), on occasion have even...