Commentary

LOAD CENTER PUT-DOWN

GOOD FOR GAO WIJIE, president of the China Ocean Shipping Corp. He told a meeting of Pacific Rim por

JAPANESE COMPANIES MOVING OUT

A.E. CULLISON

For many months, the pressures on Japanese industrial circles have been mounting as the yen continue

CHASING DOWN ANOTHER STORY

GREGORY S. JOHNSON

It was early evening and I was walking north on the west side of Broadway in New York City. I had al

FRANC HEADED FOR DEVALUATION?

HOWARD SCHISSEL

The French franc may be headed for its fifth devaluation since 1981.

As the German mark cont

USX AND TWA MERGER

VETERAN CORPORATE RAIDER CARL C. ICAHN, who won control last year of Trans World Airlines, is propos

BURN LAW AND BURN COAL

ONE OF THE MORE MEDDLESOME antidotes to the "energy crisis" should be dropped. Almost 10 years ago,

UK REHEARSES FOR 'BIG BANG'

JANET PORTER

The U.S. discount rate was cut and U.K. base lending rates fell by 0.5 points to 9.5 percent before

RACISM AND THE RISING SUN

HOBART ROWEN

One American admired by Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone was the late John Wayne. Last year

CHRISTMAS, CAMPAIGNS TAKE TIME

GEORGE F.W. TELFER

It's time to think about this year's Christmas shopping and the 1988 U.S. presidential elections.

NO 'HIGH FIVE' FOR G-5

THE HAGGLING, SWEET TALKING and arm twisting that went on at the World Bank and International Moneta

PROMOTIONAL BILL GOING NOWHERE

STANFORD ERICKSON

Each year the maritime industry honors someone in the maritime business, labor or Congress who has m

NUCLEAR POWER SAFETY: WHAT NEXT?

WILLIAM LANOUETTE

When Soviet First Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev was here in June for a Warsaw Pact meeting, he told hi

ENERGY STUDY TO FOCUS ON OIL

WASHINGTON BUREAU

COAL SEEMS DESTINED for only a secondary role in the high-level review ordered by President Reagan i

RE-FLAG U.S.-OWNED SHIPS?

A NUMBER OF PROPELLER CLUB CHAPTERS around the country are considering what role, if any, foreign-fl

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