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In foreign trade particularly, the U.S. is already suffering from its restrictive antitrust laws, which hold American companies to tougher standards overseas than competing foreign firms must meet. Kennedy-Metzenbaum would aggravate the problem. Though big U.S. companies would be stopped from buying up others at home, foreign investors would...
The CEO has a natural advantage in gaining access to Congressmen. Not many Congressmen can afford to turn away the head of a $50 billion corporation. In fact, many members of Congress welcome the CEOs, soaking up the glamour associated with extreme wealth. In the 95th Congress, Senator Howard O...
"A courageous act," said Harold Blumberg, executive director of Boston's n. American Jewish Committee. "A bold and desperate gamble," wrote the Miami Herald. Said Ted Bonda, an Ohio Democrat and former owner of the Cleveland Indians: "He's put his and the country's prestige on...
More important, however, the normalization requires the abrogation of Washington's 1954 Mutual Defense Treaty with Taiwan, and many key Senators were dismayed that the U.S. had won no promise from Peking not to regain Taiwan by force. Their concern was especially germane in light of the current Chinese...
Administration supporters within the committee mobilized against the draft. Senator John Glenn, chairman of the East Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee, declared that such a document would be "offensive to the People's Republic." After a visit to the White House, Church said he did not endorse the draft...