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...plenty. For one thing, this time it might really happen: the Clinton Administration swears it is dead serious about slapping penalty tariffs on Japanese luxury cars Wednesday. The announcement over the weekend that U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor and his Japanese counterpart, Ryutaro Hashimoto, will meet Monday in Geneva may increase the prospects of an eleventh-hour deal to expand sales of U.S. auto parts to Japan and keep the penalties from being put into effect. But even that would not defuse the intensifying confrontation between Washington and Tokyo...
...negotiators from the U.S. and Japan stepped in to try to forge an agreement in Geneva. U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor and Japanese Trade Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto began a series of what they vow will be round the clock meetings as they try to reach a trade agreementbefore Wednesday, when U.S. sanctions are due to take effect.No progress has yet been reported as the U.S. remains firm in its demand that Japan open its auto markets to American businesses. The Japanese still say their markets are open and that U.S. demands amount to little more than quotas. Any compromise will...
...Mickey Mantle is back at Baylor University Medical Center, being treated for some signs of liver rejection. Doctors are giving him strong doses of steroids to combat his immune system's rejectionof the new organ.The reaction occurs in about 65 percent of liver transplant recipients, officials say, and drug treatment usually takes care of the problem...
...trade deficit soared in April to a new record $11.37 billion, driven in large part by a surge in auto imports from Japan as dealers rushed to import cars beforethe threatened June 28 tariffs. The new figures increase the pressure on U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor to push for an opening of Japanese auto parts markets when talks resume tomorrow in Geneva. Although no one can tell if the talks will be successful in heading off the proposed U.S. sanctions against Japanese luxury cars, TIME's Adam Zagorin says "both sides will make significant efforts to try to get this...
...husband had already denounced several weeks ago, depicts a gay clergyman and a sexually active straight one. And coming soon from Miramax is Kids, a raw depiction of a sex-obsessed, drug-bleary day in the life of some New York City teens. It's the sort of thing Mickey Mouse would have to peek at through trembling white-gloved fingers...