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Something has always separated Citicorp Chairman John Shepard Reed from the crowd. While many of his high-powered banking colleagues must lumber along in English on their travels abroad, he can close a deal in fluent Spanish or Portuguese. A political independent in a Republican-dominated business, he once criticized U.S. policy on Viet Nam during a White House meeting in front of his banking boss and a Cabinet officer. During the Reagan years, according to another account, Reed has driven up to the same prestigious Pennsylvania Avenue address in a humble white Toyota compact. Now the whiz kid once...
...much of that ire is focused on the No. 2 U.S. trading partner, Japan. Without a pact, Ottawa fears, the U.S. Congress will indiscriminately freeze more Canadian goods out of U.S. markets. In the past year, Canada has been bruised in fights over exports to the U.S. of softwood lumber used in housing and other timber products; it is now under pressure to avoid enlarging its nearly 3% share of the $32 billion American steel market. For its part, the Administration sees a deal with Canada as leverage that could be used at the new round of worldwide free-trade...
...commitment to help clean up acid rain. Though he managed last spring to get American agreement to discuss a free-trade treaty between the two countries, many Canadians feel that both he and his government have been too quick to knuckle under to the U.S. on matters such as lumber and steel exports. In short, they question whether Reagan, who will meet the Prime Minister in Ottawa in April, takes Mulroney seriously...
Reed wages constant war against what Northrop Frye calls "the lumber of stereotypes, fossilized beliefs, superstitious terrors, crank theories, pedantic dogmatisms, oppressive fashions and all other things that impede the free movement of society." He refuses to use buzz-words or catch-phrases with the easy eloquence of a critic. He refuses to label himself as part of any tradition, be it post-modernist, anti-feminist, even Afro-American. He refuses to talk in categories--when asked about Black writing, he talks about Native Americans, Italian-Americans...
...become the dominant form of discourse between the U.S. and many of its important friends. The brandishing of threats and deadlines also marred U.S. trade relations with neighbors to the north and south. As the European row erupted, U.S. negotiators announced that they had solved -- almost -- a festering softwood-lumber dispute with Canada. Meanwhile, the Administration postponed for at least six months yet another major trade confrontation, this time with debt-laden Brazil. The trouble: stymied U.S. access to that country's computer and information industry...