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Just days afternegotiating a truce in a bitter trade war with Japan over autos, the Clinton Administration has launched a major investigation into charges by Kodak that Japan is using unfair trade practices to strangle its sales there. "It is critical that U.S. firms achieve full access to Japan's market, a market roughly comparable in size to that of the United States," Trade Representative Mickey Kantor said today. Kodak has exhaustively documented its allegations that Japanese film giant Fuji owns or controls most of the film distribution networks in Japan and has limited Kodak to a market share...
...model of a new, postmodern corporate culture, perfectly suited to survive in an era of rapid technological change. The Microsoft way, says Zachary, writing in Upside magazine, is neither purely individualistic (the American approach) nor consensus driven (the Japanese style) but a third way he calls "armed truce," in which employees are encouraged to challenge everybody, even the chairman. "Conflict is at the heart of every significant Microsoft decision," he writes. "This is a company constantly at war, not only with outsiders but also with itself...
Gates and Microsoft have demonstrated what the armed-truce approach can achieve. The company is a national treasure, the undisputed leader in a business now crucial to everybody's life. What Microsoft has yet to discover-and what the world is waiting to learn-is whether the qualities that brought about its triumphs will somehow make it falter...
...Mladic, commander of the Bosnian Serb army; and Mico Stanisic, the former Bosnian Serb secret-police chief -- on possible genocide charges. U.N. officials acknowledged that identifying the three as suspects complicates the job of trying to forge a settlement with Bosnian Serb forces. Meanwhile, the tattered four-month-old truce between Bosnia's warring parties was set to expire Monday despite last-minute attempts by U.N. officials to negotiate its extension...
...Saigon regime. "Those bastards!" exclaimed the usually calm Ford. Though nobody believed the aid would turn the tide, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and others had hoped it might enable South Vietnam to put up enough of a last-ditch fight to persuade the North to negotiate a truce. Two days after the committee action, cia Director William Colby told the President: "South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon...