Commentary

WHO HAS LOST THE MOST from the Clinton administration's trade embargo against Iran? As many predicte

Cuba's National Assembly approved a new law last month that was intended to stimulate foreign invest

This baby boomer gets regularly thrashed at tennis by people who are collecting Social Security, Med

THE UNITED STATES has become the world's pre-eminent deadbeat, reneging on its treaty obligations to

When German Chancellor Helmut Kohl felt the need to nudge Francois Mitterrand toward closer European

VIETNAM has made great progress in converting its economy from central management to free enterprise

WIPE TRUCKING REGS OFF THE BOOKSWhen Congress eliminates the Interstate Commerce Com

The art of diplomacy is about finesse, discretion and other subtle forms of communication. But when

GOOD NEIGHBORS will try to help each other in a pinch - unless, of course, the U.S. Immigration and

The computer, the Internet, lasers, the space shuttle, microwave ovens, CAT scans. All of these prod

TWO YEARS AGO THIS MONTH tanks were shelling Russia's White House and Boris Yeltsin was struggling t

The U.S. Congress deserves credit when it does something right. Case in point: the Senate Finance Co

House Republican leaders are pushing the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1995 toward certain House pass

Is America a country of environmental zealots willing to blindly follow the lead of others?

CONGRESS took an important step this week to preserve what's left of the nation's fisheries. By a wi

The Swiss national elections, slated to take place Sunday, are expected to bedull and uneven

SEN. BOB DOLE and Chiquita Brands International have a legitimate gripe against European restriction

Some old myths never seem to die. This is true of the latest accusations leveled against the North A

Once again, America is focused on the sorry state of its race relations. There has been endless comm

THE TIDAL WAVE of crime and corruption in Russia has claimed another victim. Top banker Mikhail Zhur

GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES have been the mainstay of foreign shipbuilders for decades. That has been a goo

To help clean up the air over America's metropolitan areas, should we quit expanding highways? That'

Ask a Canadian what happened on Nov. 25, 1976, and chances are you'll draw a blank stare. On

What to do about Cuba? It is a question that has bedeviled seven presidents, innumerable experts in

I recently had my bicycle fixed in Tokyo. After finding a shop that could do the work, I brought it

TURKEY, long known as the sick man of Europe, has been doing little lately to heal itself. A

COMPELLING ISSUES FOR BANKS, THRIFTSIn his Oct. 4 article, "The Disappearing Thrift Industry

GERMANY is gradually opening once-closed monopolies to foreign competition. In the case of its telep

It doesn't rank alongside the fall of the Berlin Wall, but last Sunday Finns celebrated the first an

HIGHWAY USERS PAY THEIR OWN WAYThe seemingly endless debate over who really pays for using t

A striking aspect of the new global economy has been the exclusion of Sub- Saharan Africa. While Eas

HISTORY RUNS STRONG in the maritime industry. Nearly every major metropolitan area on the East Coast

JAPANESE OFFICIALS clearly were irked this week by the newest report of how the CIA spied on Tokyo's

Shortly after Mexico became embroiled in the peso crisis, India's finance minister, Manmohan Singh,

When I was a college student during the 1960s, Keynesian economists boasted of their ability to micr

Government is supposed to be a matter of laws, not men, but you can't excludefrom the equati

THE HEYDAY of the British Empire is long past, but some of its better traditions endure. Consider th

LYKES BROTHERS, one of the nation's oldest shipping lines, has been walking afinancial tight

POWERFUL COMPUTERS can be assembled today almost as easily as a child assembles Tinker Toys. That's

DON'T LISTEN TO THE PIG FARMERSFollow the money. That simple Watergate-era admonitio