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Nonetheless, the Freedom of Information Act has achieved worthwhile results. The CIA, for example, was forced to reveal its top-secret MK-Ultra program of drug experimentation on humans. Ralph Nader used the act to pry out documents for his successful campaign against carcinogenic Red Dye No. 2. The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal have pressed with some success to get the investigative records of the SEC concerning almost 400 U.S. firms that have paid bribes at home or abroad. The very existence of the law causes bureaucrats to hesitate before launching actions they would not want to explain...
...affectional preference" in child-custody suits; in housing, employment, credit, public accommodations, Government-funded projects and the military; and in state laws restricting "private sexual behavior between consenting adults." Recognizing that many women feared that the resolution would hurt chances for passage of the ERA, Arizona Delegate Sue Dye explained: "It was a matter of sympathy, even though it makes things more difficult politically." Agreed Kentucky's Allie Hixson, chairwoman of her delegation: "This is a women's rights issue because if any group of individuals is repressed, it affects us all." The vote on the issue, said...
Health Research Group, one of the most effective Nader operations, which, among other things, was active in the successful battle against red dye No. 2, a widely used coloring agent...
...meant life-but what a life. Most of the prisoners would survive for only a few more weeks, doing hard labor on starvation rations or serving as guinea pigs in his ghoulish experiments. He tried, for example, to turn the eyes of children blue by painfully injecting them with dye...
...Down with Yankee imperialism!" on public occasions. In a speech in Addis Ababa's Revolution Square last month, he engaged in one typically colorful bit of theater. First he raised his hand in a clenched-fist salute. Then he smashed to the ground six bottles filled with bloodlike dye-just to show how he would destroy all enemies of his rule...