Commentary

The board of directors of the International Monetary Fund will be asked in the coming weeks to appro

BETTER TRADE THAN AID, Washington used to say in the 1960s and 1970s as a justification for denying

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress the other day that in late January ''the evide

Too bad the auditorium held only 500. People sat on the steps in the aisles. They stood in the back.

SEN. JESSE HELMS, infamous for his rhetorical excesses, tested the limits again this week when he co

InfoMatin, a French newspaper venture begun two years ago, has folded. Having accumulated losses of

RUSSIA IS THREATENING to raise import tariffs and ban imports of U.S. poultry to protect its domesti

Using the worst-case scenario of military confrontation, the American media have raised tensions bet

Europe is being sapped by self doubt as a daily diet of bad economic news and negative analyses fuel

SPANISH VOTERS ousted the Socialists from power over the weekend, putting the right-wing Popular Par

It's time to end America's economic isolation of Vietnam. President Clinton's decision to lift the e

MANY OF AMERICA'S most archaic and wasteful farm programs are headed for the scrap heap. The histori

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, former president of the Soviet Union, says he soon will become a candidate for th

Just when it looked like the worst of the maritime regulatory reform debate had ended and the discus

''A lot of companies,'' says a senior business spokesman, ''are starting to wonder about what's goin

TRUCKERS NEED SAFECONTAINER STATUTERichard Collins' Feb. 5 article on the Intermodal Safe Co

GERMAN CARMAKER BMW has dealt a telling blow to Pat Buchanan's campaign in South Carolina, announcin

AMERICA'S NEW CUBA SANCTIONS BILL is a triumph of political expediency over sensible foreign policy.

FREE TRADERSINVITE PROTECTIONISMMost ''free traders'' - especially those at senior levels in

This week, Warren Christopher began the first tour through Latin America by a U.S. secretary of stat

Republican lawmakers looking to repudiate the head-in-the-sand isolationist message of GOP president

Legend has it that a young Fidel Castro aspired to play U.S. major league baseball, but was not good

MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES have an uneasy friendship. It may well get downright testy Friday when

Many flat tax proponents say it will lead to lower marginal tax rates, thereby encouraging saving an

EX-IM SETS RECORDSTRAIGHT ON DAM PLANlike to clarify some of the inaccuracies in your Jan. 2

OFFICIAL CORRUPTION will be treated as a trade barrier under a decision by the World Trade Organizat

Ben Bradlee, longtime executive editor of The Washington Post, walked with the mighty during his jou

AND YOU THOUGHT it was just flavored water. Coca-Cola, it turns out, is actually an engine of econom

RUSSIA'S $10.2 BILLION aid package from the West is a political lifeline for beleaguered President B

Suddenly, there is a crisis of confidence in U.S. corporations - the institutions that create most o

U.S. exports just don't get any respect.At the start of 1995, many analysts assumed U.S. exp

Once upon a time, a shipbuilder in Bremen decided to triple its size, swallowing competing shipyards

SHOOTING DOWN unarmed civilian aircraft is a foolish way for Fidel Castro to build good will with th

With the Republican victory in 1994 has come a renewed interest in limited government. In particular

1996 is shaping up as a pivotal year for the North American Free Trade Agreement.After playi

FRANCE AT LAST is reacting to the end of the Cold War, announcing a shake-up in its defense establis

THE WORLD'S TWO BIGGEST diamond producers, DeBeers and Russia, signed an agreement last week that ma

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES are partners in a free trade agreement, yet their new lumber deal is an

SHIPPING CARTELSARE ANACHRONISMSIn his Feb. 14 opinion article, ''Rate-Fixing and Ocean Ship

An accident of timing may have contributed to the gyrations in the stock market last week that follo