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Thomas Pauken. The nominee to head ACTION, the agency that oversees VISTA and the Peace Corps, Pauken, 37, is a Dallas lawyer described as being as far to the political right as Carter's director, Sam Brown, was to the left. Says Pauken: "Some liberals might not like me." What is most significant is that Pauken is a former Army intelligence officer. The Peace Corps has sometimes been suspected by Third World nations of being a front for U.S. intelligence agencies. So sensitive is the Corps that it turns down volunteers who have previously been associated with such agencies...
More "highly qualified" students than usual turned out yesterday for interviews with representatives from the Peace Corps and Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), a Peace/VISTA official said yesterday...
Peace Corps volunteers serve tow years assisting residents of Third World countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the South Pacific and the Caribbean, while VISTA volunteers serve one year in rural and urban poverty areas in this country...
...gust of primitive certitude blowing in from the right. The grudgingly delighted little rediscoveries of marriage and other products of anamnesis seem part of a new American talent for throwing open the door to the worthy and obvious, to a solid modest vista of common sense or even virtue, and treating it as a revelation that the cosmos has, until now, kept hidden. It is like discovering the wheel all over again...
When the union's boycott of the company proved ineffective-Stevens last year earned a record $47.7 million on revenues of $1.8 billion-the A.C.T.W.U. also launched a corporate harassment campaign that turned out to be very potent. Devised by Raymond Rogers, 36, a former VISTA worker, the strategy aimed at isolating Stevens from the business community. Rogers scored his first coup in 1978; that was when the Manufacturers Hanover bank dropped two of its directors who were also Stevens directors, following a threat by many unions to withdraw more than $1 billion in pension and other funds they...