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WASHINGTON, D.C.--The Peace Corps occupies three floors of a fairly typical, utterly unimaginative office building in downtown Washington. Through square windows set regularly into the light gray stone you can see Connecticut Avenue and a few of the neighbors--the Chamber of Commerce and the ICA. About two blocks away, across a park that is the home of a number of pigeons, squirrels, and a rather weatherbeaten statue of Andrew Jackson astride his favorite thoroughbred, is the White House...
Then there is a large colored map that hangs over the head table of a long conference room. Yellow areas, indicating the presence of ICA personnel, are heavily-scattered all over except for a large brown mass that dominates the center of the map. In small white letters are the words "soviet bloc...
People in the Peace Corps office itself were also enthusiastic, but warned of the possibility of an amendment that would take the Corps out of its semi-autonomous position in the State Department, and put it into the foreign aid program and ICA. The effect of such a move, many feel, would be to negate the spirit of personal aid and service that the original sponsors envisaged, and make the Corps just another propaganda weapon in the cold...
...ICA divided the world into the five areas...
Though working closely with the State Department and ICA in writing its report, Bruner's committee will remain free from any official governmental connections, since it is being financed by the Ford Foundation...