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April 10, 1967 (Sat)............
April-May 1967...........
** May 27, 1967 (Sat)...........
June 1967............
** June 1, 1967 (Thu)...........
** June 2, 1967 (Fri)...........
June 2, 1967 (Fri)...........
June 3, 1967 (Sat)............
June 3, 1967 (Sat)...........
June 3 to July 14, 1967..........
July 15, 1967 (Sat)...........
.July 15+...........
••15th
of even months...........
October 7, 1967 (Sat)...........
January 1968...........
April 14, 1968 (Sun)...........
April 16 – 20, 1968...........
June 6, 1968 (Thu)...........
July 31, 1968 (Wed)...........
August 1, 1968 (Thu)...........
August 23, 1968 (Fri)............
September 9, 1968 (Mon)...........
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October 15, 1968 payday............
December 15, 1968 payday...........
February 15, 1969 payday...........
March 10, 1969 (Mon)............
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** March 1969...........
** April, 1969...........
April 20, 1969...........
April 27, 1969 (Sun)...........
June 15, 1969 (Sun)...........
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June 30, 1969 (Mon)...........
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Arrive Camp Armac. Bothell,
WA for training
Classes: Mon-Sat, 6hr Spanish daily; Bolivian
culture, history, TEFL;
Medical-dental evaluations, shots; Psych
eval. -Dr. Katz.
Community excursion (gather-present info-make
report);
Packing for 2yr trip: Shopping allowance,
issued trunks, sleeping bags.
Finish training in WA; go to San Francisco as departure
point
"State of Siege" declared
by President Barrientos in response to miners'
strike and widespread urban protests. Crisis
eased by mid July.
State of siege lasted through Mines Group service.
Meet at Spaghetti Factory for Dinner, SF
Lv from San Francisco for Bolivia
Delay in Panama; repair/change engine
Transfer planes in Lima (held plane for us, as we were
a large group)
Arrive La Paz, El Alto Airport
In-Country Training:
•
We took a bus trip to Tiahuanacu and Lake
Titicaca.
• There was the Dia de San Juan, with fires at night all over and bottle
...rockets from the top of our hotel
in La Paz.
•
Some
of us also went and visited a PCV at his site in the Yungas.
•
We went into a mine and visited the southern mines.
• We returned from our training to
La Paz in time for the 4th of July events
...at the ambassador's
residence.
Sworn in as Volunteers (telegram sent to parents/relative)
PC office opened in Oruro, Al Ferraro as Mines Rep
Volunteers assigned and sent to locations, mainly southern
mines
Huanuni, Siglo Viente turmoil still too great for placement.
Altiplano Paydays in La Paz
Cochabamba paydays in Coch ?
Che Guevarra killed in Bolivian
jungle
Volunteers sent into
Northern mines: Huanuni, Siglo Viente, etc.
Martin Luther King Jr assassination
Mines Group conference at Caroico
Robert Kennedy
Assassinated
Close Oruro Office. Al Ferraro off to Philippines
Tarija Office opened; Wadman Daly new Area rep for
Mines group
Pues organized. Bob Pruitt, Editor,
to be printed by Oruro newspaper
Bolivian school teachers
strike: Barrientos closes schools, fires teachers
promotes students to next grade, next session
to begin March 1969
Pues #1 distributed
Pues #2 distributed
Pues #3 distributed, with Ambassador Interview
Gino Baumann informs us Ambassador very angry, has called
for
termination of PCVs responsible for Pues
Bob Pruitt resigns; goes to Washingotn to lobby for Pues
situation
Robert White visits La Paz, mediates situation
Pues #4, [reviewed by Baumann before printing] distributed
President Barrientos dies
in helicopter crash
End of service conference: Caroico? Mines Group issues
White Paper
calling to internationalize Peace Corps idea under United
Nations.
End of Service of Mines Group
Moon landing: First moon
walk.
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