The Nation - News from May 2, 1986

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is looking into allegations that a former senior official in the office, now a lobbyist for Michael K. Deaver, former White House deputy chief of staff, contacted her former colleagues on behalf of Deaver’s foreign clients, a spokesman said. Doral S. Cooper, who resigned her $72,300-a-year post last August, is covered by the federal law that prohibits senior officials from lobbying their former agencies for one year, ethics officials said. But a Deaver spokesman said a report in the Washington Times that Cooper had lobbied her former agency was “absolutely false.”