Word: trained
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...such affidavits have ever been required in university contracts with foreign aid agencies. This summer Harvard helped train 60 Peace Corps volunteers bound for Malawi. The Business School has also taught advanced management techniques as part of a contract with the Agency for International Development...
Tribal State. In an ambitious attempt to win over the montagnards, U.S. military advisers in 1962 started a program to train and arm them so that they could defend their villages from guerrilla attack. More than 9,000 were schooled by U.S. Special Forces instructors, who found them to be fierce, loyal fighters, extremely useful in cutting Communist Viet Cong supply lines in jungle-covered mountains; most came from the relatively civilized Rhade (pronounced Rah-day) tribe. However, when the hated lowlanders from the Vietnamese government gradually took over the program, racial tension mounted in the training camps, and montagnards...
...natural fortress - one that might have been designed for the nuclear age. It is manned by 1,000 men of the Royal Air Force, some 700 Royal Navy personnel, and two companies of British soldiers. The troops, men from the Middlesex Regiment, provide a colorful guard for the governor, train Gibraltar's draftees, and keep ready to support the island's civil authorities in any emergency that might arise. The limestone Rock is a rabbit warren of caverns linked by 25 miles of deep-hewn tunnels. Unsinkable, indestructible, the bastion has not once fallen to its foes...
...part of the legislative college called the War on Poverty is a plan for VISTA, the Volunteers in Service to America. Administered by the new Office of Economic. Opportunity, VISTA, a domestic peace corps, will recruit, train, and support volunteer welfare workers, placing them in anti-poverty activities wherever their services are requested--at hospitals, schools, community action projects, and Indian reservations. About half of the 5000 volunteers anticipated during VISTA's first year will be assigned to state and local organizations. The rest will serve in existing Federal programs, or in Job Corps conservation camps and training centers...
...year hitch makes good sense in the Peace Corps, which needs to train volunteers intensively for sensitive missions in alien cultures. But a long enlistment period is not as necessary for VISTA. The cultural conditions of American poverty are not so unfamiliar as those of Nigeria or Peru. Assuming that he were given less responsible jobs than regular volunteers, a part-time VISTA worker, contributing 10 or 15 hours a week to a local project, could be prepared to do constructive tasks in a matter of days...