Word: nader
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...flight from Washington to Hartford had been overbooked, and the agent at the gate told the ticket holder: Sorry, confirmed reservation or no, all the seats are taken. Considering who the grounded passenger was, it might have been better to roll out another plane. For litigious Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader, unlike most travelers who are left at the gate, filed a lawsuit. He gathered evidence showing that Allegheny regularly overbooks (as do most airlines). Last week Federal Judge Charles Richey ruled that Allegheny bumps "wantonly" and "with malice." He tagged the airline for $50,000 in punitive damages, half...
...House tape recordings, which now goes to the high court (see THE NATION). The Senate Watergate committee's fight for some of the same tapes is still before the trial judge, but it may also have to be dealt with by the court this term. Meanwhile, a Ralph Nader group is seeking access to presidential papers that, it believes, will show an improper connection between an increase in federal milk-price supports and Nixon campaign contributions from milk producers. The Supreme Court will thus have an opportunity to consider Executive privilege against the competing interests of, respectively, a criminal...
...directly involved because the Justice Department's special Watergate prosecutor, Archibald Cox, is arguing against Presidential Lawyer Charles Alan Wright. Thus there is no single Government position for Bork to maintain. Even so, he will, in effect, be heard. He has entered a suit filed by a Ralph Nader group seeking a variety of White House working papers relating to the raising of milk price supports shortly after large campaign contributions were made by dairymen. Bork opposed the release of such papers, not on the ground of separation of powers or mere Executive privilege, as is being argued...
Supertestifier Ralph Nader challenged the panel to concentrate on forcing multinationals to divulge information on profit, safety and other policies, which they are not now required to furnish publicly anywhere. Such open accountings of their activities, charged Nader, would reveal that many "world-corps" dump mislabeled and dangerous goods in foreign outlets, seek out nations with low pollution standards for new sites on which to build plants and condone "snakepit" working conditions in the Third World...
...addition, Farber said, the Center is completing a report on strip mining. Harvard students and other workers for Campaign Continental, an association formed by former Ralph Nader staffers and people from the Miners for Democracy caucus in the United Mine Workers, brought issues related to strip mining before the ACSR last Spring. The issue arose when shareholders in the Continental Oil Company asked for information on the surprisingly high accident rate in the company's Appalachian coal mines...