Czechoslovakia to Take Peace Corps Volunteers
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WASHINGTON — Czechoslovakia will become the third newly democratic European country to accept U.S. Peace Corps volunteers, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
Twenty-two specialists in English teacher training and English as a foreign language will leave for the Central European country later this year as the result of an agreement signed Monday in Prague by Foreign Minister Jiri Dienstbier and Peace Corps Director Paul D. Coverdell, the agency said.
Teams of English language-teaching specialists left earlier this month to start Peace Corps programs in Poland and Hungary.
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