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...slate before nationals.But that doesn’t mean that the team’s skills won’t be given an opportunity to be sharpened before Charleston.“We’re thinking about going to New York for United States Team Racing (USTR),” Porter said.Although the USTR is not collegiate racing, Johnson and Kovacs would potentially join Porter in New York for what would be some of Harvard’s last practice of the year.No matter where they go, however, it will be difficult to replicate the choppy nature...
...Sept. 13, Dole arranged a breakfast meeting with Kantor and Lindner. A day later, according to an internal USTR memo, Kantor and his staff had a follow-up meeting with Lindner and his colleagues to discuss "possible strategies" to overturn the European quotas...
...spokesman for Chiquita dismissed the suggestion that campaign contributions by Lindner had anything to do with the USTR's taking the case. "It is well known that Carl Lindner has been actively involved and a major contributor to candidates and other causes on a multipartisan basis for many decades," he said...
...that as it may, the USTR decision to pursue a trade war over bananas was sharply at odds with its handling of similar agricultural issues. Consider this: today, even with the tough trade restrictions still in place, Chiquita controls 20% of the European market. By way of contrast, the USTR has negotiated with Japan to allow American companies a 3% share of the Japanese market for rice...
Throughout this period, Lindner and Chiquita enjoyed a close working relationship with the USTR office. Copies of U.S. government correspondence with heads of state in other countries were voluntarily turned over to Lindner. Finally, on Nov. 10, 1998, the USTR proposed 100% tariffs on several dozen European imports. The agency said the increased tariffs would be imposed on March 3, 1999, if Europe did not relent and relax its restrictions on Latin American bananas...