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...experienced reporter (the Wall Street Journal, Science magazine), Boffey, 39, had only limited help from the academy. By tradition, it keeps most of its working documents private. But Boffey and three young associates, working under the aegis of Ralph Nader's consumerist Center for Study of Responsive Law, overcame the academy's secrecy by conducting more than 500 interviews, many of them with academicians themselves, including an initially reluctant Academy President Philip Handler. In such controversial areas as the sonic booms and atmospheric damage caused by supersonic transports, the dangers of cyclamates and the effects of defoliants...
...excesses are acknowledged by many of the regulators themselves. In a speech in Detroit last week, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Lewis Engman, 38, a Nixon appointee, sounded almost like an echo of Consumerist Ralph Nader, whose Center for the Study of Responsive Law has just published a massive 950-page citizens' guidebook to the "bureaucratic labyrinths" of the federal regulatory system...
...suspicion unites extremists and conservatives, consumerists, Congressmen and local government officials. Contends Harvard's Nobel prizewinning Economist Wassily Leontief: "The oil shortage is not simply the result of the Arab embargo, but a gross mismanagement on the part of our oil industry, obviously abetted by our Government." Consumerist Ralph Nader conceded a month ago that there was a shortage, but labeled it "artificial." Now he says he does not think there is any shortage at all. "To this very hour," he asserts, "the industry refuses to disclose its reserves to the Government. If there was a real energy shortage...
...suit was typical of Nader's activities in recent years. He sees his role as "not just disclosure any more, but follow-up with lawsuits and other actions." To do that, he has assembled a pack of consumerist organizations that nip at the heels of top dogs in both business and government. His Public Citizen, Inc., for example, supports four young lawyers who have peppered the government with lawsuits. In one they are attempting to force the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration -ironically, an agency created in response to Nader's prodding-to release used-car safety standards...
Recently, however, free enterprise in the U.S. has been under heavy pressure-not so much from the New Left or consumerist critics as from some of the system's primary defenders, namely the Republican Party and private businessmen. By ordering the first controls in the nation's history (outside of a military emergency) clamped on wages, prices and rents, President Nixon made one of the boldest encroachments so far on the free-enterprise system. Nixon's New Economic Policy is, in fact, only the latest and most dramatic in a series of events that seem to challenge...