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...Ralph Nader was there, and so was the executive vice president of American Motors. The founder of Rolling Stone and the managing editor of the Washington Post took part, as did two of the most conservative newspaper columnists in the U.S. Gloria Steinem and the Knicks' Bill Bradley were there, and so were a former Heisman Trophy winner, a Nobel Laureate, a Navajo tribal leader, nine college presidents, 15 mayors and Governors, 14 Congressmen and Senators, and scores of businessmen, teachers, lawyers and economists. The occasion: a two-day conference held in Washington by TIME on the subject...
Fallows began to stop "dividing people into demons and heroes" the summer after he graduated from college, when he was working on a project on water pollution for Ralph Nader, "The Water Lords." In Savannah, Ga., he and his co-workers met with the owners of the mill that was fouling the Savannah River, and found them to be "very pleasant, very nice people...
Critics, including a minority of state health officials, Ralph Nader's Health Research Group (HRG), The New York Times, and health officials and medical journals in England, France and Canada, have disputed government estimates of the likelihood of an epidemic, its probable severity and the effectiveness of the vaccine itself...
Sanford does concede that Nader has made an invaluable contribution to U.S. society. But, he quickly adds, "he's become arrogant and self-important. You cannot be the sixth, or whatever, most admired man in the world, receiving the mail that he does and the press attention he gets, without being changed...
...Nader dismisses the Sanford book as "a consumer fraud." Connecticut's Democratic Senator Abe Ribicoff, whose subcommittee hearings on auto safety first thrust Nader into prominence, offers a more eloquent rebuttal. "I read that people are kicking Ralph Nader around," Ribicoff told TIME. "He's still a man of great influence. He's got integrity. He takes on causes that very few people want to take on. They are all controversial. He's right some of the time. He's wrong some. But he's willing to take them...