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Forty Peace Corps volunteers will train at Harvard this summer for assignments in Nyasaland, Africa, as rural public health assistants. The six-week program is the first offered by the Peace Corps to prepare volunteers for Nyasaland...
...program in Nyasaland is aimed primarily at combatting tuberculosis. The volunteers will work in separate villages as medical assistants in a team with a doctor and two nurses, travelling periodically from village to village aboard a mobile X-ray unit...
...Nyasaland (pop. circa 3,500,000) will be known as Malawi after independence, July 6; Northern Rhodesia (3,500,000) will become Zambia Oct. 24; the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, pop. circa 10 million, is already a member...
...South African press and radio have strongly emphasized Harvard's role in founding the school. According to one critic of the project--Parker Swanson '62, a Peace Corps volunteer in Nyasaland--Harvard is making "a solid contribution to educational apartheid," since Wits. admits no non-white students...
Most other observers agree. One of the most intelligent of all new African leaders, Teetotaler Kaunda, who was trained as a teacher, has staunchly forsworn violence in the ten-year struggle to dissolve the now-extinct Central African Federation, in which Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland were reluctant partners with white-dominated Southern Rhodesia. Zambia, as Northern Rhodesia will be called after independence, will be a multiracial society in which, promises Kaunda, "the rule of law shall prevail and no individual is going to be victimized because of his country of origin...