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...former Senate colleagues, he often advanced the causes of private interests. These patrons have contributed to what might be called Dole Inc.: his network of campaigns, foundations and a pac. In return he has rewarded donors with favors. Among the best-known recipients: Dwayne Andreas of Archer Daniels Midland; and Koch Industries, a Kansas-based oil-and-gas firm. A look at some of these interests that have benefited from his attention...
...been accused of a crime and was not even mentioned when three rival companies agreed to settle price-fixing charges last week. But the Justice Department clearly had its sights on Archer-Daniels-Midland, the politically powerful Illinois grain processor, when it accepted sweeping plea-bargain deals with three companies accused of fixing the price of the feed additive lysine. The companies--Ajinomoto and Kyowa Hakko Kogyo of Japan, and the U.S. arm of South Korea's Sewon--agreed to cooperate with prosecutors and pay a total of $20 million in fines to settle the case...
...Senate leader, driving for miles, stopping in front of every swaying porch lamp to beg, "Vote for Dole. Dole, like the pineapple juice." How he has triumphed in spite of his epithets: hatchet man, Nixon's water boy, tax collector for the welfare state, the Senator from Archer Daniels Midland, the Old Man. And, finally, how he believes he will wrench the presidency away from an opponent whose relative youth and ease and liquid empathy conspire to make Dole look old and stiff and all alone...
Firms such as Boise Cascade, United Brands, Archer-Daniels-Midland and Lone Star (a big cement company), as well as Coke, either opposed Helms-Burton quietly or ducked the issue. Observes Robert Muse, an international lawyer who represents Amstar, an American sugar company with $81 million in property claims in Cuba: "Helms-Burton does not have a lot of support among big American companies because it threatens to complicate their re-entry into Cuba as well as U.S.-Cuba relations after Castro...
After 35 years in Washington, Dole has an astonishingly small circle. He has a coterie of old friends, including Democratic Party viceroy Bob Strauss and Archer Daniels Midland Co. chairman Dwayne Andreas, but he does not seek their counsel. Other than his wife Elizabeth, who is an ad hoc adviser on nearly everything, Dole's inner circle is made up of Senators Pete Domenici of New Mexico, John McCain of Arizona and Bob Bennett of Utah, and even they say they are not sure what he absorbs. He taps experts on specific policy matters when he needs them--including...