WORLD : Czechs Accept Peace Corps Aid

WASHINGTON —  Czechoslovakia will become the third newly democratic European country to accept U.S. Peace Corps volunteers, U.S. officials said today.

Twenty-two specialists in English teacher training and English as a foreign language will leave for the Central European country later this year as the result of an agreement signed Monday in Prague by Foreign Minister Jiri Dienstbier and Peace Corps Director Paul D. Coverdell, the agency said in a statement.

Another 40 volunteers are expected to be sent by mid-1991.

Teams of English language-teaching specialists left earlier this month to start Peace Corps programs in Poland and Hungary, the first established in former Communist-ruled countries.