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Like Muckraker Upton Sinclair, whose exposure of conditions in Chicago slaughterhouses led to enactment of the nation's first strong meat-inspection law, Nader is particularly critical of the meat-packing industry. He directed one of his strongest attacks at hamburgers and hot dogs, labeling them "shamburgers" and "fatfurters." The targets, singled out by President Nixon, were well chosen. The fat content of the ubiquitous wiener has risen from 18.6% to 31.2% in 30 years, while its protein content has dropped from 19.6% to 11.8%. Noting the possible relationship between high fat intake and heart disease, Nader branded...
...demonstration reflected a good deal of the criticism voiced-from within and without the medical profession -against the A.M.A.'s ultra-conservative influence on national policies. Moderate and liberal critics question its propriety in helping to scuttle the appointment of Dr. John Knowles to the nation's top health post (TIME, July 4). Still remembered are the association's relentless fights of yesteryear against Medicare and Medicaid. Opponents also recall its past opposition to group practice and its efforts to limit medical-school enrollment. Thus the A.M.A. has made itself a visible villain, and is blamed, somewhat...
Nixon has scheduled five of his seven stops in Asian capitals. In addition, he may make a secret side trip to the nation that, in any case, will be at the center of his discussions: Viet Nam. The start of U.S. disengagement from Viet Nam has opened up a period of uncertainty and transition in Asian politics. Faced with a reduction of the U.S. presence, Asian leaders are taking a fresh look at their relationship with the U.S., with each other-and especially with Communist China. They are also reacting uncertainly to a suggestion by Russia's Party Boss...
...will skip Singapore, domain of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. The omission is dictated by an understandably tight schedule, but it will deprive the President of some pertinent impressions. Lee, a Cambridge-educated pragmatist, has to a large degree succeeded in creating the sort of independent and self-assured nation that Nixon hopes will develop throughout the Far East. In the past decade, he has turned the island nation of 2,000,000 into Asia's second most affluent country. Though Singapore's population contains the Malay-Chinese mix that has proved to be explosive in neighboring Malaysia...
...anything, the Nixon Administration has been less than apologetic about the practice. Last month, in a memorandum filed during the Chicago trial of eight men charged with conspiring to incite acts of violence during the Democratic National Convention, the Justice Department claimed the inherent right to bug or wiretap-without court orders-any time it felt that the "national security" was in jeopardy, As authority for this broad power, the Government cited the President's oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution" from domestic subversion as well as foreign enemies. Contending that every President since Franklin Roosevelt...