Given that Commerce is the main force within the administration pushing for freeing up the escrow rules, the below article is of interest. -Allen

WASHINGTON (Apr 8, 1996 10:48 a.m. EDT) -- When Ron Brown died in a plane crash, American capitalism lost its staunchest ally in the Clinton administration. Now business executives wonder who will champion their cause the next time commercial interests clash with other priorities.

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With the Cold War over, Brown believed the United States no longer should sacrifice economic interests to other foreign policy goals and he used his close friendship with Clinton to push a business agenda inside the administration.

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He succeeded in battles with the Defense Department in loosening Cold War-era export controls that American companies had long complained severely limited their ability to sell high-technology products such as computers and telecommunications equipment.

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