Japan, but his redoubtable lungs could
You'd crive
not cope with the cold there; trying to
race after a brief hospitalization for a
respiratory ailment, he collapsed after
two hundred yards. One of the featured competitions of the AficrOlympics was the Miicronesien AU- Around,
a focal variation on the decathlon, with
in
spearfishing,
underwater
for the summer of 1971, on Koror, was
a bitter disappointinent to the pro-
spective Palauan hosts, who had hoped
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swimming, and coconut-tree chimbing. The cancellation of the next
MicrOlympics, which had been set
if you could si
to add to the roster of events blowgun-
shooting and war-canoe racing.
Some of the things that the Peace
Corpsmen have been deing in Micronesia are what any Americans could
have done twenty-five years ago. The
Japanese built a seventy-mile road all
the way around Ponape, but the iskiund
gets heavy rains-—there is an average
annual fall of three hundred inches in
the interior—and by 1945 the bridges
and culverts were in such disrepair that
the Ponapeans had.to use boats to get
from one part of the island to another,
This situation continued for twentytwo years. In 1967, a handful of Corpsmen, aniong them a scientist named
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Wayne Judd, who had had some ex-
perience in construction, persuaded the
Ponape District legislature to apprepriate sixteen hundred and five dollars
for read repairs. In three months, the
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Corpsmen, employing logal labor, burke
three bridges and seven culverts. When
Judd finished his Peace Corps sunt, he
wentto Haswan fore year, and then returned to become head of an organteation called the Ponape “Pransportation
Board, Now known simply as PLT LB.,
it sa contracting ageney controlled by
Micronesians, It has a staff of twentyfive, and half a million dollars’ worth
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of construction projects under way or
recendy completed—-among the latter
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a post office that after hours serves as a
social center for young people. Mlost of
the PVT.B.’s energies have been cancentrated, however, on undertakings
outside the district center, where the
majority of the Americans live. “Our
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work is for the peaple, and not to sup-
port the Amenean base of operations,”
Judd told me.
Most of the Peace Corps volunteers
in Micronesia have been engaged in
teaching, often in a program called
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