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...Laura Tyson is the muscle behind Clinton's trade plan...
When the Clinton Administration last week uncorked a tough new approach aimed at cracking Japan's trade barriers to computers, auto parts and other imports, top officials in Tokyo immediately rejected the policy as "unrealistic." To which Laura D'Andrea Tyson, chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, calmly remarked to a colleague, "That's good. It shows they fear that we're on to something that will get results...
...Tyson hopes. The new policy, which demands that Japan increase imports of specific products and services, is inspired in large part by her provocative ideas and research, as laid out in her 1992 book on trade and technology, Who's Bashing Whom: Trade Conflict in High-Technology Industries (just published, incidentally, in Japanese). Using case studies in industries ranging from electronics to aerospace, she shows that U.S. products that outperform their Japanese competitors in impartial "third markets," such as those in Europe, are persistently blocked in Japan by officials and business executives...
...talk back. Clinton, pressed by reporters for a response to Perot, said, "Well, we know he doesn't like my state . . . but that doesn't have much to do with America." Three senior officials -- Trade Representative Mickey Kantor, Labor Secretary Robert Reich and Council of Economic Advisers chairwoman Laura Tyson -- appeared at a press briefing to answer in advance the attacks on NAFTA Perot was preparing to make in a TV speech Sunday night...
Dershowitz said that his highly publicized cases his list of past clients includes Klaus von Bulow, Leona Helmsley and Mia Farrow--actually contribute to his classes. "I teach Tyson in my Criminal Law class; we will be studying rape during the next few weeks," he said...