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Doctors say Mickey Mantle is doing "remarkably well" after undergoing a second operation to stop bleeding around his newly transplanted liver . A hospital spokeswoman said such bleeding sometimes occurs in transplant cases and does not mean the body is rejecting the organ, which seems to be functioning well. Mantle, who was expected to be out of bed and moving around a bit by the end of the day, remains at Baylor Medical Center in critical but stable condition and could return home in two to three weeks...
...Mickey Mantle is recovering from liver transplant surgeryearly this morning. Theformer Yankee great, 63, received the organ just two days after doctors at Baylor University hospital decided that his advanced liver cancer, complicated by hepatitis, would soon kill him otherwise. Physicians insisted that Mantle's age and deteriorating condition -- not his fame -- put him at the top on the waiting list when they found a new liver Wednesday night. "A lot of people were suspicious of this--last night we'd heard it could be three or four weeks, and now today he has the new liver," says TIME Dallas...
...Clinton Administration slapped 100% tariffs on 13 Japanese luxury cars in the toughest trade showdown between the two countries in two decades. In unveiling the sanctions, which would double the sticker price of such models as Lexus and Acura when they take effect on June 28, Trade Representative Mickey Kantor declared that the U.S. would no longer "stand by and watch its workers and its products unfairly treated" by Japanese trade barriers to American autos and auto parts...
...Trade Representative Mickey Kantor met again with Japanese Trade Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto in a final effort to resolve adispute over the car and auto parts trade. The U.S. wants Japan to open its market to American automakers, but so far the talks, set to end today, have been fruitless. President Clinton says he will impose punitive tariffs on Japanese products if an agreement cannot be worked out. At issue is the Japanese refusal to extend the 1992 pact that called for Japanese automakers to commit to purchasing more American-made parts. Nearly 60 percent of America's record $66 billion...
...fact, the moves were intended as a ceremonial bow toward Washington, which last week threatened to slap billions of dollars' worth of tariffs on Japanese autos and auto parts unless Tokyo lifted its trade barriers against American cars and trucks. "This is a No. 1 priority," U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor told Time. "We know what we want, and we are going to insist upon...