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...seven years since he began making headlines with exposes of unsafe cars, Ralph Nader has broadened his interests enough and launched enough consumer organizations to rival any corporate conglomerateur. Annoyed critics have kept hoping that he would either run out of steam or start boring the public. Instead, Nader supplied fresh evidence last week that he is as energetic, and as capable of enlisting new allies, as ever...
When Ralph Nader released The Company State (1971), a report attacking Du Pont influence in Delaware, the papers gave the document heavy play. More recently, Reporter David Warsh, 28, was sent to Washington to cover Securities and Exchange Commission hearings on the proposed merger between Du Pont and Christiana Securities, the holding company through which the family owns the papers. Warsh's coverage was so acerbic that, as one Du Pont man bitterly put it, the reporter became an instant "folk hero...
...Noting that many such suits had been brought as "legalized blackmail" to force settlements from companies unwilling to face the cost or risk of fighting the actions, Federal Judge Harold Medina, who wrote the decision, called it "a landmark." Replied Mark Green, a legal activist who works with Ralph Nader: "I'd call it a land mine...
Disclosure on environmental protection and mine safety measures and on minority hiring is "important and of legitimate concern to shareholders" in Con Oil, the subcommittee said, but not in the "extensive detail" called for by Campaign Continental, the group of Miners for Democracy and Ralph Nader staffers which solicited proxies for the Con Oil resolution...
Debate. The quadriphonic howls of protest indicated that Ruckelshaus had passed one test of an impartial compromise: he outraged both sides about equally. Ralph Nader, Detroit's perennial fifth wheel,* charged that the EPA decision amounted to "capitulation to the domestic auto industry, pure and simple." Automen insisted that the interim standards are still too stiff. General Motors Chairman Richard Gerstenberg pronounced himself "dismayed"; Henry Ford II pledged to "examine the avenues of administrative, legislative and legal recourse open to us" to get both the interim and final standards softened. The contrasting denunciations unintentionally symbolized what Ruckelshaus himself called...