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* We Americans have used the handy phrase "technical assistance" abroad to cover a multitude of things that don't fall into crisp categories. The phrase leaves much untold. When we enter other countries at earth level and attempt to share with the inhabitants in the intimate and pressing matters that are the very stuff of their lives and social ways, we are submitting ourselves to the most sensitive testing of our humility and our wisdom. Neither innocence abroad nor arrogance abroad is tolerable. True friendship abroad, is. The venture described here is one of the most imaginative of the international jobs in which America shares, for it is based on that highly elusive but commanding premise, the soundness of the community method. And its difficulty can be gauged by the fact that this is no easy export of a commodity in which our country admittedly excels, but is rather a vision of human dealing in which we are but one of the gropers. This of course lifts the Sardinian venture cleanly out of the basket of things we do "for foreigners" and daringly onto the plane of values we pursue with our friends. It is superfluous to add that the wide success of this approach the world around might cause peace to break out in unexpected places.