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Ruppe met with Secretary of State Alexander Haig about the budgetary problem and said she had found him " very supportive.
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Ruppe also traveled extensively through Africa, spending time in Kenya, Morocco, Egypt, and the Spanish Sahara where she saw the potential for partnerships with third world countries to meet human needs.
The White House press office said that Mrs. Ruppe " has spent most of her life in volunteer efforts ," including International Neighbors Club IV, and " has traveled extensively and shared ideals with past Peace Corps volunteers in many countries.
" " He said what we were doing was right in line with the Administration's foreign policy ," Ruppe said.
Ruppe announced that teams of 5 to 10 volunteers would work with small-scale farmers on land preparation, water supply, storage and preservation of crops, processing and marketing assisted by the United States Agency for International Development.
On September 5, 1996 Senator Chris Dodd who served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Dominican Republic, honored Ruppe with a speech on the floor of the Senate: " When President Reagan appointed her in 1981, the Peace Corps budget was rapidly declining and was less than that of the military marching bands.
Ruppe and Secretary
Ruppe added that on May 15, 1981 she and Secretary of State Alexander Haig had sent a joint communique to all United States embassies reaffirming that Peace Corps volunteers would not engage in spy or intelligence activities.
Ruppe and about
" Ruppe said after her nomination " I have had a great interest in the Peace Corps and I'm very thrilled and excited about the nomination.
" But we haven't heard anything yet about our appeal ," Ruppe added.
Ruppe and budgetary
In addition to budgetary challenges, Mrs. Ruppe gave the agency a political facelift by projecting the agency as non-partisan, despite the fact that she herself was a political appointee, and increasing its viability on both national and local levels.
Ruppe and said
" At a time when we're seeking a strong peace, I think this program can be a very important part of that ," Ruppe said.
It must always signify Americans pulling together for peace ," said Ruppe.
" The new master's program is a wonderful tribute to Loret Ruppe, and a wonderful opportunity for the Peace Corps and Michigan Tech ," said John Hogan, Peace Corps associate director for international operations.
Ruppe and she
Loret Miller married Philip Ruppe and settled in Houghton, Michigan where she began her long career as a volunteer organizer and civic leader.
At the opening of the conference, the audience of returned volunteers applauded Ruppe when she told them that she was committed to a strict policy of keeping the Peace Corps out of United States intelligence work in foreign countries.
Ruppe and had
Ruppe was eventually able to convince Ronald Reagan, originally a skeptic of the Peace Corps, that the agency had value.
In 1981, Ruppe appointed ten country directors who had been selected by the Carter Administration over White House objections.
The Apollo was a German automobile manufactured by Ruppe & Son of Apolda in Thuringia from 1910 to 1927 ; the company had previously offered a car called the Piccolo.
Ruppe and him
At the Peace Corps, Curran attempted to carry out Reagan Administration policy but Ruppe responded by stripping him of most of his staff and official duties, including authority as acting director in her absence.
Ruppe and .
Scruggs was born near Shelby, Cleveland County, North Carolina, to Georgia Lula Ruppe and George Elam Scruggs, a farmer and bookkeeper, who played banjo and died when Scruggs was four years old.
* David Ruppe, " U. S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba ; Book: U. S. Military Drafted Plans to Terrorize U. S. Cities to Provoke War With Cuba ," ABC News, 1 May 2001.
Under the distinguished leadership of former Director, the late Director Ruppe, the concept of moving toward 10, 000 American volunteers throughout the world began to be articulated by the Reagan Administration.
Stupak won the heavily contested Democratic primary, and defeated former Republican Representative Philip Ruppe in the general election.
Loret Miller Ruppe ( 1936 – 1996 ) was a Director of the Peace Corps and US Ambassador to Norway.
She was the wife of U. S. Congressman Philip Ruppe of Michigan.
Ruppe attended Marymount College in New York state, and Marquette University in Milwaukee.
Ruppe served as chairperson of the Houghton United Fund campaign, president of the St. Joseph's Hospital Guild, and as an active member of the Houghton County Republican Committee.
Ruppe attended the Conference on Africa in Ditchley Park, England in 1978 which furthered her interest in solving problems in the third world.
On February 15, 1981 President Ronald Reagan announced the selection of Ruppe as director of the Peace Corps.
" Ruppe also stated her belief in the continuing relevance of the Peace Corps.
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When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.
A year ago, when I met with you, the nation was emerging from an economic downturn, even though the signs of resurgent prosperity were not then sufficiently convincing to the doubtful.
While with the Whiteman band Mercer met Jerry Arlen.
after all, the large ( and probably unreliable ) Reader's Digest literature on the `` most unforgettable character I ever met '' deals with village grocers, country doctors, favorite if illiterate aunts, and so forth.
As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.
`` Little Rock is, without any flattery, one of the dullest towns in the United States and I would not have remained two hours in the place, if I had not met with some good friends who made me forget its dreariness ''.
One cannot read the records of scientists, officials and travelers who have penetrated to the minds of the most savage races without realizing that each individual met with is a person.
I never met John Dewey, whose style was a sort of verbal fog and who had written asking me to go to Mexico with him when he was investigating the cause of Trotsky ; ;
It was faced immediately with a showdown on the schools, an issue which was met squarely in conjunction with the governor with a decision not to risk abandoning public education.
Generally, throughout the South, there is a growing impatience with the pattern of violence with which every step of desegregation is met.
I feel that few burglars would be prone to break and enter into someone's apartment if they were met with a good hardy growl that a dog would provide.
I wrote her that I'd met up with Eileen and that old bonds had proved too strong and asked her to send my clothes down by express.
Once we have made clear that we are genuinely concerned with a country's development potential, we can be blunt in suggesting the technical conditions that must be met for development to occur.
These attempts met with little sucess for a variety of reasons.
Just yesterday we had met and talked with a living writer, a contemporary of the dead poet, who is known for his ability of manipulating his ideas and his craft more advantageously.
this is met with scorn by the hearers, who claim that Mityukh is lying or drunk.
In the spring and early summer of that year she met a wealthy foreign tycoon who took her to France, where she later met a very wealthy man and toured all Europe with him.
Instead he brought with him the names of some people he had never met and of whom the medium knew nothing.
In September 1817 at Fort Daer ( Pembina ) Dickson met the noble lord whom, with the help of a band of Sioux, he escorted to Prairie Du Chien.
The U. S. and Soviet heads of Government have met three times since Sir Winston Churchill in 1953 introduced a new word into international diplomacy with his call for a fresh approach to the problem of peace `` at the summit of the nations ''.
The tragic irony of the play is that the very belief in and concern with a devil who could be met in the woods and combatted with formulae set out in books was the very thing that prevented them from detecting the real devil when he came among them.
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