EL SALVADOR GETS OWN PEACE CORPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300180014-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 1998
• Sequence Number: 14
• Content Type: NSPR

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two weeks, the Untted Atates
n t joint Peace Corps projects
rxt two weeks.
x t Salvador o: the first un-,
ierdeveloped i,iiiou to set ups
is own domestic version of the
until `this-'program begot
race Corps teams had been
rum the United States.
others. Platt Programs
Fifteen five-man teams of
7nited States Peace iCorpsi
volunteers and members of K=l
owns and villages throughout. f
he Central American country
l'tteir task will be to pro? "'t'his is fhe first time sinceI
the mar there has been tin
5)te. cumrnut its- development. inSlitutional way of reaching(
ac h teat >, will be headed by try youth in underdeveloped
.. loader..- voiu...,eer __d will, _o..ntries and ?..vo1v n them
are spes'ctli tF. in health, edu- in the problems and progress of
id ILVAWI-L&1t3 all A 1.?V..t-ept. is .F. deed
In all, -' A nu!ricans and 4811 "What were doing now is j
work in the underdeveloped: Northern RlicxtrAls Inl
world," he went an. I"(- want' Dr. Kenneth Kaunda. Minis=
to see whether we an gi,-c; ter of Local Government in
them adequate training ,, c?th Nord hern Rhodesia, who is ex-
rr you can get the right kind. p+'cted to become.;that coun-
of motivation among the young try's Premier after odepen-;
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people, and whether you con 1 denc?e, is reported to
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set up adequate programs. to commit his Gove:ts'j tit
Mr. Cloodwir#'s staff rt c curtly i it similar pirogram. 7
sent a team of three Af r ca na. , Two representativ. of the,
West German and an israeir International Peace Corps See-
to investigate the prospects for retarget are expected ti silt
setting un` domestic Peace to Northern l(hod lio0it"ttif: 11 - Corps org~llisa4.tnns in Xenya, held set up a progi1 it or 80D
Northern Rhode ia. Ti;ngtnnvi-; volunteers, desibn t;~ir e
kri. Uganda and Nyasaland Th 1, part not only top ly" i,
staff also has i:utch and x.,l-, development but gent
pino mentlaer,. rural youth from d i ng into
The survey t i :: foitnd it th" tipper belt, where"payy'' ia,
Four others, Bolivia, the enthusiast lc "ar n? to t r,s . ' high but jobs are hard to lipid,,
anminican Republic, Northern I; Peace Corps
id .t- Kenya a:.d l.n Latin America, Good-,
I hodesift. t>.FM .....~ ,,~y,siL a..?, ,. ... ... ,....!'. Will h a lt;VVL ed YersRual l.4VAAl-
aye indicated that they will= in planking l rrre Corps pro. mitrnents on domestic Peace,
enya, Nyasaland, and Mattis- ~,l#?' ?iangariylka, where the : dent. Joan l3crsch of the Dom1n
I iAeft _h S the strong support of
n are moving in the same
ir.xt+ Republic and President
.already, 10 industrially -0-1 tlte'Qovernment has appropria!-j Rnli.ia, =
ancrd nations, mostly in l:u? ed'ttbotit $000,000 fcr the pro-1 ., Bolivia. j tint AmerieiittiA,
t'e, have set up organixa- ; grsm. Pi li. i It; trans would be used
inn: patterned after the Peace Mreadv 20 volunteer ;eadr.'rs i t'. iR'Lip lnriian f sonnies resettle
u?in> promoted by the inter* i group or Ttut?ttTne:voaun?k s 1?r?,.. into the lash traplr I *,L
id tonal Peace Corps Secrctar*
Vtll be select s;durfng l lo,t i:rndy.
nc e in Puerto Iti'o ai gram that wlll_eveentually' the prograim to help combat;';
?ur White House. and Statei tie volunteers to rural 4 earl. age. particularly in the south:'
t; p it wif,1tt official v ho np nt and clinics, ding iwcxr near Rani anti 8arahoris;
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lion and settlement.I st$ to irttcrilit the'figtt fa9q,