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BUSINESS, Page 52Business NotesDIPLOMACYPretty Cute For a Crowbar
The New York Times Magazine once described U.S. Trade
Representative Carla Hills as a "persistent, fiercely
competitive, sometimes thin-skinned workaholic." Tough words
for a tough woman. Yet as a leading Japanese politician would
have it, Hills is more cute than competitive. Koko Sato, deputy
secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, sat
next to Hills for more than two hours during a dinner party at
the recent Houston economic summit. Sato, 62, told friends he
found Hills, 56, "easy to deal with if you lull her with the
Oriental way of life and philosophy." He later described Hills
to reporters as "charming and cute, just getting on a bit in
age." Sato also noted that when he praised her husband, Hills
was all smiles. "She is quite feminine," he said.
Hills refused to comment on Sato's remarks, but her staff
noted that she is known as the Velvet Crowbar.