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...when the camera caught Begala outside a hotel doing his drop-dead Perot imitation to abc's Mark Halperin's decent Al Gore, a preview of the matchup the night before on Larry King Live. The deepest groan sounded when, on-screen, campaign chairman (now U.S. Trade Representative) Mickey Kantor, in his power tie and suspenders, enters a room full of jeans and T shirts with election-day returns and apologizes to the camera for saying...
...reduce trade barriers throughout the world. As a Dec. 15 deadline approaches, those talks have bogged down on several issues, especially the European Community's insistence on renegotiating an agriculture accord that is a sticking point for France in particular. Writing in the Financial Times, U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor recently warned that if Europe balks, "U.S. trade will continue to expand with Asia and Latin America, and Europe will be left...
...Trade Representative Mickey Kantor warned Japan that Washington would impose trade sanctions if Tokyo did not open up bidding for Japanese government construction projects to U.S. firms. Kantor set a deadline...
...care. Every Tuesday or Wednesday in the Roosevelt Room, Clinton meets for at least an hour with 10 to 20 undecided House members from both parties. The goal is to meet all waverers by the end of October. Once a week, Bentsen, Vice President Al Gore, Trade Representative Mickey Kantor and economics counselor Bob Rubin invite to Washington 100 business and opinion leaders -- mostly handpicked by undecided House members -- to learn more about the pact. Every visitor receives a follow-up note from the President and a call from someone in the NAFTA "war room...
...right, NAFTA, designed to dismantle virtually all trade barriers between the U.S., Canada and Mexico, could go into effect as planned on Jan. 1, 1994. But even as Kantor and his colleagues were negotiating, top White House political consultant Paul Begala was on Capitol Hill urging key Democrats to put off consideration of NAFTA until after they begin to debate the Clinton health-care package. That process could take months following the bill's planned introduction in late September. Such a delay could scuttle the trade accord...