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...Casino du Liban, near Jounieh, though its Lido-style floor show has yet to reopen. In warm weather, Beirut's St Georges swimming club, located next to the internationally renowned burned-out hotel of the same name, has reopened for swimming, sunning and girl watching Owner Michel Nader, who spent $500,000 to refurbish his club, left one bullet-riddled section of the bar as it was, "so people can remember and talk about what madness the civil war was." Another sign of returning normality: the reappearance of foreigners, including about 2,000 of the 5,000 Americans...
FANS is only a small fiefdom in Nader's consumerism empire, which includes more than a dozen Washington-based organizations, scores of staff members and an annual budget of $1 million, raised in public donations that average about $15 per person. Among the better-known groups...
...Center for Study of Responsive Law, the original flagship Nader organization. It produced a blitz of study-group reports in the early 1970s that exposed abuses in dozens of fields, from chemical products to environmental pollution. The center is now a backwater, dealing with lesser issues...
...places them in the lower classes of society; this orients them toweard the working-class point of view. It's true that most lecturers aren't paid well, if at all. But there are notable exceptions, mainly those people who are regulars on the lecture circuit-- people like Ralph Nader. Galbraith, comfortably enconsced in his Gstaad chalet, doesn't fit; this mold either...
...often do Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader and the liberal lobbying group Common Cause find themselves on the same side of an issue with the major oil companies, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the leadership of the Republican Party. But last week just such a formidable, if unlikely coalition sank the Energy Transportation Security Act of 1977, better known as the cargo preference bill. In a confused and acrimonious vote, the House of Representatives defeated the bill, 257 to 165. In so doing, the legislators rejected both Jimmy Carter's endorsement of the measure and a campaign...