Word: kantor
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...HIGH SEAS OF TRANSATLANTIC COMMERCE, it was the equivalent of a shot across the bow. U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor threatened to stop the purchase of telecommunications, transportation and power equipment manufactured in the European Community, thus signaling that the Clinton Administration means business about dismantling protectionist trade barriers. The stern new measure is aimed at the E.C.'s "buy Europe" policy, which allows government agencies to award lucrative contracts to other E.C. members even when underbid by foreign firms. Unless a compromise is reached before March 22, $45 million in annual purchases will be terminated. Kantor's motivation...
...consensus, he has shown a tendency to depart from it on a whim. Attorney General-designate Zoe Baird told Clinton about her employment of illegal aliens as drivers and nannies last November, but she survived the transition's much vaunted vetting process anyway. Clinton turned to campaign chairman Mickey Kantor to be his Trade Representative even though the Los Angeles lawyer has no experience with the issue and must recuse himself from two upcoming rulings because the law firm in which he retains a financial interest represents NEC, a Japanese semiconductor company, and the automobile firm Suzuki...
...Trade Representative-designate Mickey Kantor, 53, the Los Angeles attorney who chaired Clinton's campaign...
...will tell the tale, and by all accounts Clinton is just beginning to focus on the transition. But for months a number of campaign insiders and several groups officially unaffiliated with Clinton have been thinking hard about governing. A small cadre led by campaign chairman Mickey Kantor, a Los Angeles lawyer, has been working secretly for eight weeks. In Washington the Democratic Leadership Council has been pondering policy and structural questions for even longer, and Clinton's aides expect its conclusions will carry special weight. Clinton helped found and was once chairman of the group, a collection of centrist Democrats...
Clinton has not exploited the issue, in part because many of his own advisers do lobbying work too. Clinton national campaign chairman Mickey Kantor is a partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Manatt, Phelps, Phillips & Kantor, which represents Japan's NEC Corp., United Airlines and the National Cable Television Association. Democratic Party chairman Ron Brown is an "inactive" but still salaried partner in the Washington law firm of Patton, Boggs & Blow, which represents more than 100 companies, governments and other clients, including the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority...