"The U.S. Peace Corps is, in fact, an espionage body carrying on subversive activity in various countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America," according to Makatolls organ of the Cairo Office of the Basutoland Congre s Party, im its latest issue. The magazine said that the U.S. Peace Corps supported subversive elements in undermining the peoples' struggle against colonialism and neo-colonialism, Advantage of the neod for technicians in the developing countries had been taken to send these "missionaries" to such countries,
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5 U.S, CITY voOrms TO ABOLISH CIVIL DEFENCR,
The City Council of Portland, the biggest city in the State of Oregon, U.Seue has voted to abolish the city's Civil Dofence programme from July lst. Opposition to the programme which has becn going on for 13 years by City Commissioner Stanley Earl has argued that C.D. would be of no value in a muclear war, Portland is the first city in the U.S.A. to abandon its civil defence exercises, The local C.D. organisation has $1 million worth of equipment and occupies a building which cost $650,000, It has 11 full-time employees, The Council voted to abolish the budget of $109,656 for its Civil Defence agency in the coming yoar, It is expected that a co-ordinating committeo for disnstorrelief will bo formed with a midget of $10,000,