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...these reasons, the auto deal falls far short of being the "major step toward free trade throughout the world" that Clinton hailed. This week, even before the pact had been printed, word got out that Kantor's office will begin investigating a potentially explosive complaint by Eastman Kodak. The company charges that Fuji Photo Film and the Tokyo government illegally conspired to prevent Kodak from enlarging its 9% share of the market for camera film in Japan. The complaint -- involving some of the same Japanese business practices that the U.S. tried but failed to change in the auto deal...
Those specters will probably push the two sides to a solution--this time. But other flash points abound. Already there are bitter disputes about cargo flights over the Pacific, complete with threats not to let each other's planes land, and an Eastman Kodak demand that Washington punish Japan for a supposed conspiracy that limits Kodak's sales of camera film there. The squabbling may boil over into global politics: Japan has announced that it will not join the U.S. in refusing to buy oil from Iran...
...automakers and many other large companies savored the Clinton Administration's moves. "The focus is on auto parts, but to a certain extent we all have the same problems with Japan," Robert Allen, chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T, observed two weeks ago. Amid the growing bellicosity, Eastman Kodak last week filed a complaint with Kantor's office that accused Japan and Fuji Photo Film of blocking Kodak's access to the Japanese market...
...such topics as how to become a Republican committeeman and how to "blitz E-mail." Indeed, the group was nothing like the Coalition members uncharitably described by the Washington Post in February 1993 as "poor, uneducated and easy to command." Jessop, 54, is a senior project engineer at Eastman Kodak. His deputy Rahm Goswami, 44, is a research chemist with a Ph.D. A similar meeting a month earlier in Charleston, South Carolina, was attended by several lawyers and physicians -- all in business suits. Another misconception is that the Coalition is exclusively white. Two blacks came to the meeting in Rochester...
White, a former Eastman Kodak executive, worked as an assistant secretary of defense during the Carter administration...