When the U.S. Peace Corps contingent arrived in Tanganyika nine months ago, recalled Corpsman Eugene Schrieber, 23, an engineer from University City, Mo., "a mere sign on a golf course fairway startled us into the realization that at long last we really made it." Planted near the jungle rough, the sign said: BEWARE OF LIONS.
Since then, the 35 corpsmen have become accustomed to lions, rhinos and other wild life while working with native trainees on a threeyear, $67 million road-building program. Geologist Allen Tamura, 23, from Pasadena, Calif., has also become...