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The Republican takeover of Congress raised hopes that meaningful telecommunications reform would pas

The dust is beginning to settle from the recent Franco-American spy caper, and it is becoming easier

COME ON GUYS, GET A LIFE I don't know about your other readers, but I was amazed by both the

EUROPE'S RECESSION IS OFFICIALLY OVER, but its unemployment problem lingers on. Last week, E

Canada recently made one of the strangest requests U.S. trade officials can ever remember. C

Congress has tried and failed twice in recent years to rewrite the Export Administration Act, the la

THIS JUST IN from the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace: a color brochure advertising an impressi

Since its inception, Medicare has been valuable and popular, and has served the medical needs of the

AMERICANS TALK about balancing the budget; Canadians are actually trying to do it. Canada's new budg

Just before 7 o'clock on a recent morning in February, passengers paying topdollar to ride A

MICKEY KANTOR, America's trade representative, will go to Beijing soon to sign the landmark anti-pir

There is plenty about the balanced budget requirement that is objectionable, but the most irksome fe

TRAVEL AGENTS FIGHT BACKYou are right when you say that by filing lawsuits and complaining t

Everybody hates government. If we didn't know that before, we know it now, thanks to the recent elec

WASHINGTON'S BITTER FIGHT over the balanced budget amendment has obscured an important fact: Never h

Now that Washington's financial aid package for Mexico finally has been completed, what is ahead for

RARELY HAS ANYONE fallen from grace faster than Carlos Salinas. Mexico's former president was still

The fiscal relationship between the national government and the 50 states is garnering more attentio

IT WAS MERELY A COINCIDENCE that Barings, the venerable British investment bank, collapsed in a deri

ORION: GETTING THE NAMES STRAIGHTI was dismayed by the headline on your Feb. 23 arti

ORION: GETTING THE NAMES STRAIGHTI was dismayed by the headline on your Feb. 23 arti

It's 10 a.m. on a Saturday morning but this muckraking journalist isn't thinking about scoops. He's

IT WAS MERELY A COINCIDENCE that Barings, the venerable British investment bank, collapsed in a deri

The fiscal relationship between the national government and the 50 states is garnering more attentio

It's 10 a.m. on a Saturday morning but this muckraking journalist isn't thinking about scoops. He's

Europe hosted a big party last weekend to celebrate the information age. The guests of honor were th

"Federico's Folly," decried the cover story of the conservative American Spectator, condemning the m

Reducing the size of government is high on the Washington agenda these days. Voters say they don't l

CHINA'S PLEDGE to curb copyright piracy, wrung from Beijing Sunday after months of negotiations, is

Transportation Department officials are planning to ease their restructuring plan past Congress in t

AMERICAN PRESIDENTS always tread carefully on their visits to Canada, and Bill Clinton was no except

Somewhere in space, which I'm sure you know is a large area, there's a glove. It was dropped by an a

Perhaps as much as other readers, I was surprised by your recent editorial fury over the fact that h

OPPOSITION IN CONGRESS to creating a separate corporation to manage the nation's air trafficcontrol

Mats Hellstroem, Sweden's foreign trade minister, was in town last week. Asked if Swedish carmakers

An amazing political juggling act is being performed on Russia's southern border by Geidar Aliyev.

FOR ALL OF BEIJING'S ECONOMIC MIGHT, reminders are everywhere that China is still an undeveloped nat

A FIRST SEA VOYAGE ABOARD A LYKES SHIPThe Feb. 15 Publisher's Notebook (Page 8A) on

TRAVEL AGENTS HAVE DECLARED WAR on airlines, but this is a fight the agents aren't likely towin.

You might think an idea that has the enthusiastic support of both President Clinton and House Speake