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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...
...WILLIAM J. RARENTE Department of Government Georgetown University Washington...
...general strike has been raging in British Guiana for eleven weeks against the regime of Marxist Prime Minister Cheddi Jagan. The bitter division of the colony between the Negroes and the East Indians (still loyal to their countryman Jagan) is worsening. Violence is spreading from the Georgetown capital to the countryside, where en raged mobs of anti-Jagan Negroes battle with the East Indian farmers...
...Georgetown University...
...strike. The bauxite mines and sugar mills closed down; so did the docks, railroads and airports. Hardly a store remained open. In the emergency, British technicians arrived to run essential power plants and water works if necessary. The frigate Whirlwind, later replaced by the Londonderry, steamed into Georgetown harbor to reinforce the 500 Coldstream Guards on duty in the country...