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UNSELFISHNESS is no longer the keynote of the Peace Corps In the wake of recent policy changes by the Reagan Administration. "The toughest job you'll ever love" might better be described as. "The toughest job that will ever further your career, and help the economy. "Peace Corps director Loret...
In tandem with the Corps new emphasis on self-interest comes a change in the incentives volunteers are offered Ruppe's executive assistant. David Scotton, praised the program this week as a chance to gain marketable" international experience in a Third World country," and stressed that the Peace Corps has...
Such self-centered motivation is far from the "harvest of international peace and understanding" contemplated by John F. Kennedy in 1961. However, it has enabled the Peace Corps to survive. Faced in 1981 with a declining budget and the demise of VISTA, its domestic counterpart, (termed "leftist" by ACTION director...
Those involved in the retouched endeavor have had no difficulty finding rationales for the change. Richard Abell, director of program development, commented that "the philosophy is that the goose that laid the golden egg for the American dream has been the economic system." Ruppe feels that "personal enrichment and economic...
Tough Vote. When Ford set off to West Point, he took three House Republicans along with him on Air Force One. He invited them to his forward cabin and, as New York's Hamilton Fish said later, "He told us how strongly he felt about the veto." After the...