60 MINUTES WITH ROBERT M. LANGER, ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL STATE OF CONNECTICUT, AND CHAIR, NAAG MULTISTATE ANTITRUST TASK FORCE

Mr. Crane: The late 1980s turned out to be a much more interesting time in antitrust than we might have anticipated when we looked forward from the 1982-83 time frame. Perhaps the most far-reaching and interesting development was the emergence of the states as significant participants in the enforcement of the antitrust laws. The engine for that development was the National Association of Attorneys General, acting through its Multistate Antitrust Task Force, which is a subcommittee of NAAG's Antitrust Committee. There is a Chair of that Task Force, who is an assistant state attorney general specializing in antitrust enforcement, and he has emerged as the principal spokesman for antitrust policy of the third leg of what is now a tripartite antitrust enforcement system in the United States. As a result, this program, which used to be a twoparty program, has become a three-party program. We are now turning to the new third leg of that enforcement structure.