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...just five years ago," the President noted last week at a White House dinner for his guest, "Iran's land reform program had barely begun. Today, 50% of Iran's rural families farm their own land. Some 7,000 rural cooperatives have been established and 800 extension corpsmen are helping farmers acquire new skills." It is no accident that Iran's economy is the strongest in the Middle East. And no one is prouder of his country's achievements than the Shah himself...
...carry out the study, the U.S. Army sent Captain Peter G. Bourne to Viet Nam. Although he is a psychiatrist, Dr. Bourne decided to use biochemical indicators of servicemen's reactions to combat and the threat of death. In Saigon he made friends with the medical corpsmen of helicopter ambulance crews since they were medically oriented and most likely to cooperate in his demanding routines. They agreed to run a daily check list of their emotional changes...
...presents lists of nice-sounding wishes. People should not be drafted for unjust wars, the CP says, just as the unemployed should have jobs. If they are drafted, they should not have to fight. Apprentices ought to be exempt, VISTA workers ought to be exempt. Peace Corpsmen shouldn't have to go. The CP program sounds like an appeal for special interest groups...
...volunteers use the same classroom methods, interest themselves in the same activities, bring the same devotion to their task, or put the same value on their contribution.... The spirit that the volunteers brought to their work varied so widely that one sometimes could hardly believe that two Peace Corpsmen had been in the same country...
Those who listen closely cannot fail to observe that the difficulties cited most frequently on the questionnaires given to corpsmen at the end of their tour of duty were "frustrating work experience" and "lack of activity of nationals in helping themselves...