Commentary

BILLIONS OF BARRELS of crude oil lie beneath the frozen tundra of Alaska's North Slope - a resource

THE U.S.-BRITISH aviation feud took a more civil turn last week. Although the two countries are stil

Japan has agreed to settle the cellular telephone complaint after being threatened with sanctions un

Despite later U.S. denials, Motorola Inc. pushed hard for specific sales commitments in its recent n

Antitrust laws, President Clinton tells Congress in his 1994 Economic Report, generally increase com

President Clinton's decision to make "significant progress" in human rights the major criterion for

NEW TANKERS EXCEED SAFETY REQUIREMENTSWe read with an almost complete sense of mystification

AFRICA has long been considered an economic lost cause - not least by its own elites. While other de

TRY AS THEY MAY, members of Congress have a tough time keeping their debates dignified. Cons

The Washington memory bank of acronymia is ever expanding. Two of the latest acronyms, kudos to the

MEXICO, heading toward a presidential election this August, has hit a difficult stretch. This week t

Americans want good roads. Traditionally, they have paid for them through gasoline taxes that now av

FRESH from his success in winning a $6 billion Saudi Arabian order for U.S. airplanes, Commerce Secr

Later this month, the U.S. Maritime Administration will publish regulations launching the National S

The Chiapas Indian rebellion has irreversibly altered Mexico's political landscape. The insurgents,

Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa's decision to lift the ban on imported rice is a heavy blowto rural

THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION has begun its inevitable retreat on China. Its ill- advised plan to force

The name of the international pow-wow in Detroit this week was the "jobs summit." Like most big medi

PRESIDENT CLINTON'S Detroit "jobs summit" has concluded with - surprise! - no consensus on how to ta

The air in Brussels will be thick with irony this week as the European Union bidsto boost its member

MERCHANT MARINE'S LAST GASPMaritime Administrator Al Herberger's March 11 article, "Blueprin

LOW-WAGE WORKERS are receiving the attention of world leaders, but it may be the wrong sort of atten

"The hypocrisy of Congress exempting itself from the laws it applies to others is so obvious that on

This week the leaders of the major industrialized countries are attending a jobs summit inDetroit to

In the Texas panhandle and at four secret sites in Russia, an amazing effort is under way: The arms

In an incredible four weeks late last year, President Clinton pushed the North American FreeTrade Ag

Steel industry executives will be watching an International Trade Commission vote Thursday on whethe

THE CLINTON administration may have inherited Nafta from George Bush, but the president seems determ

PRESIDENT CLINTON today kicks off another of those big policy seminars he likes so much: atwo-day ta

President Clinton has talked of "growing" the American economy, providing both better jobs and a cle

President Clinton this week sent Congress a plan to ensure that this nation will continue to have a

Earlier this year, it seemed that the combined pressures of politics and the prospect of huge federa

THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM serves the nation well, but it doesn't connect enough of the country t

IT'S NOT EASY dismantling a socialist economy, as events this week in France show. The government of

NEXT WEEK, the House of Representatives is expected to approve a balanced budget amendment to the Co

It was a dark and stormy night filled with baskets of indicators tangibly resulting in frameworks of

PATRICK CLEARY, who has refereed labor disputes since 1989 as a member of the National Mediation Boa

The success of Russian extremist Vladimir Zhirinovsky's Liberal Democratic Party in the December par

ETHANOL: GOOD NEWS FOR THE ENVIRONMENTWayne Brough's article "A Special Bargain for Ethanol"

If what's going on here is what the world means by progress, please stop the world. I want to get of