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...Nader Heights...
...about the oil situation. While the President continues to try to get his stalled energy program through Congress, and the cost of imported oil-which now supplies 42% of U.S. needs, vs. 35% in 1973-continues to increase the nation's balance of payments deficit, critics like Ralph Nader scoff that "the world is drowning in oil." Indeed, the experts themselves are increasingly divided into two camps...
...promotion of women and blacks; consumerists and ecologists find unions ranged against them out of fear that consumer-protection and environmental laws will cost workers jobs. Columbia University Industrial Relations Professor James Kuhn believes that to regain power, "labor needs the imagination to sit down and bargain with Ralph Nader's group and the Sierra Club environmentalists as well as with employers...
...have their lobbyists in Washington, including 14 that pursue the special interests of the elderly and six that deal with air pollution. Even the Virgin Islands Gift Fashion Shop Association has a lobbyist. Large staffs are maintained by such broader public interest groups as Common Cause and the Ralph Nader organization. Grumbles House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "Everybody in America has a lobby...
...carried particular weight because the federal agency, which only last week announced that it was urging Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. to recall 15 million of its steel-belted 500 radial tires for safety defects, is headed by Joan Claybrook, an avid consumerist who for four years directed Ralph Nader's Congress Watch group in Washington. Said Claybrook: "Our conclusion is that the Omni/Horizon has very good handling characteristics very similar to many other small cars...