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...Though not always a guarantee of success: the ill-fated Corvair, which a then little-known lawyer named Ralph Nader said was unsafe, also won the magazine's accolade...
...Before that, he earned a master's degree in urban affairs at Boston College, worked with Boston street gangs for the U.S. Office of Education, was the first director of HEW's Office of Students and Youth, was a Senate aide to Walter Mondale and headed Ralph Nader's organization in Connecticut. Now a member of the House-Senate energy conference committee, he has led the fight to keep tight controls on natural gas prices and reform utility rates. Interviewed by TIME Senior Correspondent James Bell, Moffett echoed the mood of many in Congress. Excerpts...
...exhortations about the environment and corruption in our society were at least as true and relevant as any uttered by Ralph Nader or Euell Gibbons, yet he was often sneered or laughted...
Nonetheless, the Freedom of Information Act has achieved worthwhile results. The CIA, for example, was forced to reveal its top-secret MK-Ultra program of drug experimentation on humans. Ralph Nader used the act to pry out documents for his successful campaign against carcinogenic Red Dye No. 2. The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal have pressed with some success to get the investigative records of the SEC concerning almost 400 U.S. firms that have paid bribes at home or abroad. The very existence of the law causes bureaucrats to hesitate before launching actions they would not want to explain...
Maybe it is because Congress and the President have not stopped catering to the big bucks of Big Business lobbyists who know the corporate accountability Nader proposes means an end to the excess profits they depend on. We have to remember that Crusader Nader did not kill the corporate giants; he merely pointed them out. We citizens are to blame if there is no followup...