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DATE: FRIDAY, October 8, 1993                   TAG: 9310080144
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

NOMINEE FOR RTC HEAD INTERVENED IN REVIEW

President Clinton's nominee to head the savings and loan cleanup agency and other top officials intervened in an ordinarily closed review process to urge that contracts be restored to a congressman's former law firm, according to documents and officials.

Agency officials called Resolution Trust Corp. President-designate Stanley Tate's attendance and advocacy at a meeting last month an unusual step in what is supposed to be a process free from political pressure.

"This is supposed to be an independent process. This kind of thing is absolutely unprecedented," said one of the nine members on the Outside Counsel Conflicts Committee, which reviewed the case involving the former firm of Rep. William Jefferson, D-La.

Tate confirmed he attended the meeting but declined further comment. - Associated Press

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