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...Hallelujah. Designed originally for teaching illiterate adults (Peace Corpsmen find it intriguing for potential use in illiterate countries), Words in Color is now being tried in 100 schools in seven states. In Euclid, Ohio, where a pilot project was launched last year, five-year-olds read simple stories, first-graders whip through fourth-grade readers. "What do brown, light orange, magenta make?" the teacher will ask. "Pot!" cry the kids. Dr. William Jordan, assistant head of the elementary schools, says: "We have never seen such progress. Our color readers are far ahead of any comparable groups." Students conquer the course...
...weapons, TNT, and 1,000 detonators. Twenty miles north of the capital, a self-defense corps post even tried a bit of Viet Cong-type cunning. Getting word that the Reds planned to cut the post's barbed-wire fence by night and stage a raid, the corpsmen lay in ambush outside the post. They allowed the Viet Cong to snip through the first layer of wire, then pelted them with hand grenades. The defenders lost one man; but the Viet Cong's 37 attackers were wiped...
...VOLUNTEERS. Five thousand people would be recruited to work (much like Peace Corpsmen) among the poor at an unspecified living allowance and $50 per month separation pay. Half of the volunteers would be available to local agencies that request them (with the approval of the state Governor), half would be assigned to projects such as migratory worker groups, conservation camps and Indian reservations...
...police officials were arrested and nine others, including Police Commissioner Erasmus Madjitey, sacked.* This was seen as a move to turn all law-enforcement duties over to the Red-lining army. > The government press called for the expulsion of the 150 U.S. Peace Corpsmen in Ghana, calling them "spies and meddlers...
Fifteen rabbits made it safely on a 500-mile Jeep trip from Rio to Barra, Bahia, with two corpsmen last month. The volunteers will do some demonstration rabbit-raising, hoping to move on to rabbit cooperative from there. A Peace Corps couple a Anglical, Bahia have a veritable "two-year plan": illiteracy programs, ceramics industry, youth clubs, a library, a vegetable garden, a health education class, model furniture, privies, water filters, and small dams. The couple, and most of the "new wave," call themselves "community developers...