The Peace Corps - Pernambuco (PC-PE) Agriculture Cooperatives project description was drafted in mid-1968 to request replacements for the first FECOMIPE (Federation of Mixed Cooperatives in the State of Pernambuco) Cooperatives group (December 1967 – December 69) for on-site placement in October 1969. The document was based on six to eight months of experience with the first Pernambuco Agriculture Cooperatives group. The Peace Corps project description was a document required by the Peace Corps bureaucracy to request a group of Volunteers. Since the process of approval, recruitment and training took about nine months, a decision to request a new or replacement group needed to be made one year in advance of expected placement in the field.
Janet S. Karon served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines from 1961-1963. She was an education volunteer and taught English in an elementary school.
Lynne Lewis is appointed Fulbright Professor at the University of Togo. Almost immediately, she finds evidence of a bloody murder on the run-down campus. There is increasing instability as the country tries to gain democracy and depose the long term dictator. Lynne helps the US State Department sort through the eccentric group of Americans at the university and several Africans to solve the violent deaths of two colleagues.