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By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited by Linda Feldmann

September 6, 1983

The Reagan administration has shackled OSHA, the government's workplace watchdog, and turned it into an ''industry-indentured, demoralized bureaucracy, '' consumer advocate Ralph Nader charged Sunday. ''The Reagan administration pretends that safe working conditions can be best achieved through a 'cooperative relationship' between business and government,'' Mr. Nader said in releasing a 103-page study of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.