1.   An Export-Import Bank official, who spoke only on the condition he not be named, said the loans were not connected to the auto dispute.

2.   A U.S. official said Clinton will make a statement Wednesday on the auto trade dispute.

3.   A U.S. official said President Bill Clinton will make a statement tomorrow on the auto trade dispute.

4.   A U.S. official said Clinton will make a statement tomorrow on the auto trade dispute.

5.   Garten is one of the top U.S. negotiators in the auto dispute.

6.   He meets today with Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, though little progress on the auto dispute is expected.

7.   In the long-running autos dispute, however, Clinton risks being impaled on his own sword.

8.   Japan and the U.S. discussed their auto trade dispute before the World Trade Organization, with neither side expecting progress toward a negotiated settlement.

9.   Mitchell would not say if the U.S.-Japan auto dispute would be on the agenda.

10.   Neither the U.S. nor Japan has shown public willingness to change its stance on the substance of the auto dispute, however.