Commentary

CARTOON ON DOCTORS' INCOMES: NOT FUNNYI have never bothered to write to a publication before

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT transportation bills of the decade cleared Congress Monday withouta hitch.

A recent news story from the Associated Press suggests that disillusionment is setting in inGaza and

In less than three years - on June 30, 1997 - Hong Kong, the unabashed capitalist enclave,will becom

AFRICA'S MISERIES seem endless. Horrifying reports of disease and starvation are becoming sadly comm

As the Haitian generals continue to block the return of President Jean Bertrand Aristide, democracy

In Japan, where group-based culture is so strong that even salesmen within a companyare paid the sam

WINSTON LORD, the administration's Asia policy chief, restated America's ''staunch support"for admit

Last Friday was a bad day on Wall Street. Stock and bond prices took a dive and interest rates rose

SLOWLY, PAINFULLY, Congress is moving ahead with a bill to implement the biggest trade deal in histo

This city has lost its raison d'etre, as it has done every August for the past 35 years when the Eur

When I first introduced the Employment Dispute Resolution Act in 1992, it was needed to ease the bur

THINK BIG ON FREE TRADE AGREEMENTSThe Yukon and Tierra del Fuego are the alpha and omega of

FOR A GOOD EXAMPLE of why so many nations distrust the United States, take a close look at the shipy

Formal debate on health care legislation will begin this week in Congress, where Senate and House De

Why John Stocker resigned from the Shipbuilders Council of America has been the source of muchspecul

As Congress moves to take up revisions to the Export Administration Act - the law that is the basis

Many Americans think of Washington, D.C., as a city of great monuments and marble places. Others may

Unemployment has been increasing in Western Europe for 20 years. By 1993 more than 17 million people

CHINA CAN BE A DIFFICULT PLACE to do business, what with overt trade barriers, inconsistent commerci

PRESIDENT CLINTON talks a good game on free trade, and sometimes - as in the Nafta fight last year -

VENEZUELA DEFENDS ITS ECONOMIC PLANYour July 28 article, "Venezuela's Economic Crisi

The Uruguay Round trade deal was negotiated to help expand world markets for U.S. and other exporter

For most of the postwar era, when the industrialized nations sneezed, the emerging countries of Asia

ISRAEL AND JORDAN, whose agreement last week ended 46 years of war, are losing no time getting down

DISASTER PROTECTION BILL FILLS A NEEDThis letter responds to the inaccurate depiction of the

WITH PROTESTS mounting here and in Europe, U.S. regulators are launching a formal probe of the shipp

It is common political sport to complain that business is too big, firing here, slashing there, acqu

Did you know that wherever you live in the country, you are "protected" by California against grower

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan likes to brag about his success in reducing inflation. He to

No freight moved by rail in Britain for the better part of three days last week as striking signalme

KEEPING AIR CARGO SERVICE RELIABLEthe last month, your newspaper has reported that both USAi

AMID LAST WEEK'S clamor in Congress over the pending world trade deal, the Clinton administration sc

In a recent series of essays, Stanford economics professor Paul Krugman critiques the concept of nat

The American Trucking Associations is keeping a close eye on the Environmental Protection Agency's i

The bloody war over the picturesque mountain enclave of Nagorno Karabakh in the Caucasus has continu

EUROPE'S SUBSIDY TAP opened again last week and $6 billion in government aid came pouring out. That'

Economists, politicians and editorial writers periodically warn that low investment and saving rates

IT'S TIME for the Clinton administration to resume aviation talks with Britain and Japan. The United

India is fast becoming an attractive market for investment. British, German and Japanese businesses