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Almost any mail-carrying ship outward bound from a U.S. port carries cartons of books consigned to potential leaders in de veloping countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Even a forty-eight-foot sailing trimaran that recently left New York on a three-year, round-the-world cruise stowed books and applications for book gifts to be handed to readers in the Polynesians, the Orient, the Indian Ocean? wherever the ketch calls and wherever American books are sought. Freedom House/Books USA has distrib uted nearly 500,000 books in nine years to individuals, libraries, and schools in ninety countries abroad. The books are clearly stamped as gifts made possible by volun tary contributions from thousands of pri vate American citizens. The program was conceived by Freedom House to demonstrate the personal concern of individual Americans for the peaceful, constructive development of the emerging nations abroad. Freedom House, the thirty year-old parent organization, is dedicated to strengthening free societies. Its book distribution program was founded on the conviction that for years to come the destinies of developing nations will be shaped by relatively small groups?the men with the ability, the knowledge, the drive
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