Word: nader
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Says Ralph Nader: "This is a survival issue...
...early 1972, however, AMPI executives were having second thoughts about their generosity to Nixon's campaign. Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader had brought suit in Federal District Court in Washington that January, contending that the hike in milk-price supports had been illegal. A week later, the Justice Department filed an antitrust suit in Federal District Court in Kansas City, Mo., charging the cooperative with unfair trade practices, including price fixing. Upset by the course of their political activities and the resulting publicity of both suits, the AMPI asked Nelson to resign as general manager...
...megamuck and a more sophisticated breed of raker. With the exception of Watergate, the corrective campaigns of S.S. McClure's magazine, where Steffens and his colleagues launched their crusades, have been largely institutionalized. Now the work is done by civic-action groups-like Ralph Nader and his teams of faceless young researchers-as well as by lawyers, governmental agencies and the courts...
Speakers at Faneuil Hall will include Tom Stanton, who headed Ralph Nader's Tax Reform Research Group and Nick Jones, New England coordinator for the United Farm Workers...
ITALY is in the midst of an oil-tainted political scandal that has grown into what the local press calls "our Watergate." A special parliamentary committee is looking into charges by a Nader-like group of magistrates in Genoa and Rome that politicians passed legislation favorable to the oil interests, in return for which oil companies contributed millions of dollars to the major political parties. In total, Unione Petrolifera, the association representing all private oil companies in Italy, allegedly paid out some $20 million over the past four years to top political figures...