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...from a pragmatic U.S. point of view it has been effective. Ethiopia is fiscally sound, is one of the few nations to repay its lend-lease obligations in full. Selassie dispatched troops to U.N. combat in both Korea and the Congo. He has eagerly accepted 244 U.S. Peace Corpsmen as schoolteachers to raise the literacy standards of his people...
...House Rules Committee. But even in the Senate version, which barely passed, 47-44, the inclusion of the Thurmond amendment threatens the bill's efficacy. By making the Corps' activity contingent upon a governor's approval, the amendment needlessly injects the civil rights issue: it will, in effect, prohibit corpsmen from working with Southern Negroes. Inconsistent with a program aimed at aiding needy individuals, the amendment should be excluded from the House draft...
...meager five million dollars for the first two years. Neither a large bureaucracy nor duplication are imminent: a small administrative board will arrange training, and projects will be chosen only if no other service is available. And there is to be no Federal encroachment on the local domain: Corpsmen will work only when requested by local groups; they will not be sent anywhere...
Your very excellent rendition of the obstacles imposed on the not-so-glory-ridden Peace Corpsmen surely helped to straighten out many thwarted images held by many reposing onlookers on many "front porches of the U.S." WALLY PARHAM Stillwater, Okla...
AVIK GILBOA Hong Kong Sir: Missing in your otherwise excellent story on the Peace Corps' success was adequate coverage of the universities that trained corpsmen in the languages and customs of the host countries. Georgetown is particularly proud to have conducted the largest Peace Corps training program at an American university, our "alumni" being those 276 schoolteachers in Ethiopia...