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...outset I should like to clear up one misconception about Campaign GM. Our campaign is not under the direction of Ralph Nader. Ralph helped plan the campaign in its early stages and speaks in support of us on numerous occasions. But ever since February 7, 1970, when Campaign GM was launched, Ralph has played no role in formulating its decisions, its statements or its strategies...
Boston Mayor Kevin H. White yesterday endorsed the Campaign to Make General Motors Responsible and urged four city stock funds and Harvard University to turn over their proxy votes to the Ralph Nader-supported insurgent stockholders...
...Nader's Raiders struck again last week. This time their target was the Federal Food and Drug Administration, which they tore apart in what may well be the most devastating critique of a U.S. Government agency ever issued...
...attack took the form of a 293-page report called The Chemical Feast. It was based on a two-year study of the FDA by Consumer Watchdog Ralph Nader and 20 student volunteers, most of them specialists in medicine and law. Their report accused the agency of conspiring with the food industry to defraud consumers and even to endanger their health; FDA regulations, they argued, read like a catalogue of favors to special interests. Specifically, the agency was accused of allowing the sale of "enriched white flour" that is actually stripped of most nutrients, of permitting meat packers to increase...
...most of the blame on the FDA for the fact that the American infant-mortality rate, once fifth lowest in the world, is now 13th lowest. But many of its points are soundly made. While placing a large share of the blame on practices of the food industry, Nader's Raiders hit hard at the FDA for frittering away its limited resources on relatively harmless quacks while letting major corporations go virtually unregulated. They note that the agency has only two men enforcing the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act of 1967, whereas proper enforcement could save consumers between...