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Much of the credit for the Peace Corps's rejuvenation must go to Loret Ruppe, 47, a managerial whiz who became director of the agency in 1981. The wife of former six-term Michigan Congressman Philip Ruppe, she jockeyed for the directorship while serving as chairman of the Michigan campaign for George Bush in 1980. After President Reagan appointed her, Ruppe used her formidable Administration connections to fend off proposals to cut about 10% from the Peace Corps budget, which totals $128.6 million for the current fiscal year. She argued that the agency represented the best of American volunteerism...
...Corinne C. ("Lindy") Boggs, 67. A six-term House veteran from a 45% black New Orleans district, she voted against Reagan's budget cuts and supports a nuclear freeze. She could help Mondale in the South, but her antiabortion record hurts her with many women's groups...
DIED. Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, 71, six-term Democratic Senator from Washington and one of the most influential figures in U.S. politics; of a massive heart attack; in Everett, Wash, (see NATION...
...farming forebears were doomed to failure despite their heroic labors, a trauma that helped shape the young Lyndon. He began running away from home while still a toddler. As a cousin puts it, "He wanted attention. He wanted to be somebody." After watching his father Sam, an incorruptible six-term state legislator, go broke trying to raise crops in the merciless hill-country dirt, Lyndon opened a propaganda campaign against him. Whenever the boy received a mild thrashing, he would holler loud enough to be heard across Johnson City. He seemed, as Caro puts it, "to be going...
...first-term incumbent Congressman James Shannon, a Catholic, in the Fifth District, northwest of Boston,* and Frank, a Jew, in the Fourth District, who is a strong supporter of the ERA and equal rights for homosexuals, as well as public financing of abortions for poor women. His chief opponent, six-term Waltham Mayor Arthur Clark, a Catholic, had staunchly opposed abortions and had received heavy financial support from anti-abortion groups. Said Clark: "The church has the right to step in because there is an erosion of moral fiber in this country...