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Kantor says he has no recollection of the note. "I don't remember writing it," he says. Lang doesn't remember it either. He recused himself from the banana dispute, he says, because before his appointment as Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, he represented the European side in the WTO proceedings. Nuechterlein, likewise, doesn't remember anything about it. "I was not involved with bananas substantively," he says...
...memories aside, the pressure did indeed grow. On July 19 Carl and Keith Lindner wrote to Kantor again, expressing their dissatisfaction with proposals put forth by the Europeans to resolve the banana dispute. At least in the view of the Lindners, the war should be waged as a joint effort, with Chiquita and its ally, the U.S. government, on one side and the European Union Commission on the other...
...four-member Hawaiian congressional delegation sent a letter to Kantor saying they were prepared to talk about possible "international courses of action" against the E.U. As America's only state producing bananas--most were grown for consumption on the islands--Hawaii had an indirect stake in the outcome of the banana war; because Chiquita, Dole and other producers had flooded the European market, tariffs notwithstanding, the overflow had found its way back into the U.S., driving down retail prices...
With at least an additional $95,000 of Lindner money in the Democratic Party's bank accounts, the U.S. Trade Representative on May 8 took its banana case to the WTO. At long last, the Clinton Administration was ready to mount a global trade war on Lindner's behalf...
This week they begin a new series, "Big Money & Politics," which will probe the consequences of all the campaign cash Washington rakes in--in this particular case, from the direction of banana magnate Carl Lindner. Barlett and Steele, who spent 27 years at the Philadelphia Inquirer before coming to TIME in 1997, are no strangers to covering campaign-finance abuses, but this investigation was especially challenging because, says Steele, "politicians and lobbyists are going to greater and greater lengths to disguise what they...