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Show Service rendered by Peace Corps The foreign aid program is more than ever before being subjected to a barrage of criticism. criti-cism. Its purpose and effectiveness is being bluntly challenged on Capitol Hill and from grassroots grass-roots taxpayers who pick up the tab. Even the beneficiaries of the program's open-handed largesse larges-se carp from time to time about its operations. Etched in sharp contrast to the aid program is the record written by an off-shoot of Uncle Un-cle Sam's effort to sell democracy democ-racy to the rest of the world the Peace Corps. It was established three years ago by the late President Kennedy on a temoprary and experimental basis. It hasn't all been smooth sailing. There have been publicized pub-licized though isolated problems prob-lems where volunteer performances perform-ances did not come up to idealistic ideal-istic standards. But they have been rare. In the main, the corps seems to have made a tremendous contribution con-tribution toward real service and international understanding understand-ing of America of the sort no amount of money .could I achieve. |