Commentary

Greetings, friend! Let me buy you a drink. How about a tall, frosty glass of a highly advertised new

A new kind of terrorism is threatening the West.Free-lance terrorism.Terrorists have become

Robert Dole, erstwhile majority leader of the U.S. Senate and prospective Republican candidate for t

Scientists have discovered fossils of microscopic bacteria in a 3-billion-year-old Martian meteorite

EX-IM BANK JUSTDOING ITS JOBAmong his many inaccuracies, Ron Gottshall misunderstands the Ex

Whodunit to whom - organized labor to the railroads, large railroads to short lines, railroads to th

IN DEFENSEOF SHIPPING SUBSIDIESI read with great interest your article, ''Marad can authoriz

Imagine a government that would ask its citizens to pay $2 billion to support a foreign aid program

Bob Dole's new economic plan is risky, unrealistic and fated to fail. Although the principle behind

Faced with a sharp drop in tax revenue, Moscow is imposing levies on suitcase-size importers. In doi

''Besides, they look like maids.''The phrase echoed inside my head and left me speechless. I

Leaked intelligence reports about terrorist training camps have sparked new fears about Iran, but th

The tragedy of TWA Flight 800 inevitably recalls Pan American Flight 103, brought down by a bomb ove

A new economic and political dogma is being preached in the current debate on medical and health pol

An Aug. 1 Letter to the Editor, ''Setting the Marcus Hook record straight,'' (Page 6A) mistakenly sa

As the world watches for signs that newly elected Russian President Boris Yeltsin can maintain his h

Southern California's long-simmering economic resurgence is now truly building up steam after a half

In early July, 119 American executives sent a letter to President Clinton urging him to go slow on s

The coming 12 months will be critical for the European Union's planned single currency as its two bi

Bob Dole's new economic plan is a roll of the dice for a presidential candidate who has been going n

Keeping up with this year's flood of U.S. trade sanctions has been like watching the climactic scene

Leveling the fieldfor encryption exportersI am concerned about the federal government's hesi

Americans should be proud of the 26th Summer Olympic Games. For 17 days, Atlanta held the world spel

Politicians are rushing to do something - anything - to make airports more secure. In the aftermath

The global phenomenon of rapid urbanization places before the world something akin to the ''progress

While you were busy working last week, another new bureaucracy was busy spending your money.

For all the gold being passed out at the 1996 Olympics, none of it compares with the gold being rake

Don't look now, but you and your choice of fresh produce could well become victims of the politics i

CLARIFYING EXPORTCONTROL POLICYYour recent article, ''Pentagon to cede clearance of exports,

When I was in high school, the ''level one crowd'' valued high grades in honors courses, and did not

U.S. companies still hold out hope that the Export-Import Bank will finance hundreds of millions of

The rest was foreplay. Now America has lost its virginity. That's how the aftermath of the bomb in A

Ulysses S. Grant once said the burden of war falls on ''the producing class.'' This observation take

The debate over tuna-dolphin legislation, which reached the floor of the House of Representatives th

Like many callers to Rush Limbaugh's radio talk show, Jody from Georgia seems to have dialed the wro

Try saying ''load center'' to a port executive. Watch what happens.You'll get one of two rea

NO SWEET DEALSFOR US SUGAR PRODUCERSIt was disappointing to encounter in Dennis T. Avery's o

More than 50 of the world's largest airlines, including most U.S. carriers, have signed a voluntary

The physical damage caused by the Jakarta riots that followed police takeover of the opposition Indo

Although congressional efforts to overhaul environmental regulation have stalled, there is increasin