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...large, the names being bandied about for Carters Cabinet pleased the President-elect's supporters. Inevitably, they displeased some, who feared that Carter was reneging on his campaign's populist themes and promises to bring new faces to the Government's highest levels. Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader, for one, announced that his honeymoon with Carter might come to a premature end because Carter was paying too much attention to "corporate interests" and not enough to consumer representatives...
...decision will keep alive a controversy that has been raging for seven years. Advocates of air bags, led by Ralph Nader and some insurance companies, especially Allstate, have demanded that the Government order the bags put in all cars. Allstate's argument: use of the air bags would mean fewer deaths and serious injuries, thus also fewer lawsuits, smaller claims payments and, ultimately, lower insurance rates. Automakers regard the bags as vastly overrated...
...slightly to the left of American journalism, and often out in front. The Nation blew the whistle five months before the event on CIA preparations for the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion-to little avail-and published the first article on automobile safety by a young lawyer named Ralph Nader. Publisher James J. Storrow Jr., who has owned the magazine since 1965, put it on the block early this year, after the retirement of longtime Editor Carey McWilliams. "It was time to turn it over to someone who is younger and has more energy," says Storrow...
Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader, 42, agreed...
...Nader, the issue is not lack of understanding but of power. In trying to redistribute power, said Nader, "I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." But most people "don't know the rudiments of civic inquiry, and if they don't have a process of learning where to get information, they will reflect the usual attributes of powerlessness: apathy, lethargy, disillusionment, negativism...