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...calamity. The efforts were, in the White House's telling of them, a mission born of no darker motive than sympathy. Bowles, then heading the Small Business Administration, had no long-standing ties to Hubbell, but was moved when he heard of his plight from then Trade Representative Mickey Kantor, who was himself making calls on Hubbell's behalf. "My dad raised me to help people when they were down," Bowles told the Wall Street Journal...
...conservative tycoon from Cincinnati, Ohio, who heads Chiquita Brands, gives much more money to Republicans than Democrats. That helps explain why, when he needed a big favor from the Clinton Administration two years ago, he may have wanted to hide his footprints. Lindner wanted U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor to help him pry open European markets, which rely on various tariffs and trade barriers effectively to shut out Lindner's bananas. Though hundreds of companies ask Washington to investigate unfair trade practices, the U.S. Trade Representative accepts only about 14 cases each year. Even fewer are taken to Geneva...
...Commission; he gave the Democratic National Committee only $15,000 in the final 15 months of the campaign. Instead, D.N.C. officials instructed Lindner to give directly to state-party coffers, which are subject to far less public scrutiny than federal-election accounts. On April 12, 1996, the day after Kantor asked the WTO to examine Chiquita's grievance, Lindner and his top executives began funneling more than $500,000 to about two dozen states from Florida to California, campaign officials told TIME. The only record of the contributions is in often remote state capitals, like Cheyenne, Wyoming, where contributors...
...favor. When that is made final, Lindner stands to gain millions in revenues from new sales in Europe--a good return on the $2 million in soft money that he and his firms have handed both parties since 1990. Republicans too have supported Lindner's banana crusade. (Lindner and Kantor declined to comment...
...Cabinet members have already decided to leave. Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Secretary of Defense William Perry have announced their resignations, as has Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor. Labor Secretary Robert Reich is quitting and will probably be teaching here at Harvard again pretty soon. Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary is on her way out the door, as is Transportation Secretary Federico Pena...