Commentary

DESPITE RUSSIA'S nearly constant turmoil, life - and business - goes on. Procter & Gamble, the big U

IT'S BEEN A VERY GOOD WEEK for Mexico. The day after the U.S. House approved the North Ameri

The Clinton administration is preaching free trade at the GATT world trade talks in Geneva. In some

While this expiring congressional session will be remembered for the bitter battles for House majori

Cooler winds have been blowing in Washington's direction since the Liberal Party seized control of t

THE NORTH AMERICAN Free Trade Agreement wasn't Bill Clinton's idea. In fact for most of the last yea

From the multitudes that have descended on Seattle this week for a meeting of the Asia Pacific Econo

THIS WEEK'S resumption of hostilities between Washington and London over aviation rights threatens t

BETTER USES FOR $600 MILLION IN SUBSIDIESThe Nov. 9 opinion article by Reps. Robert Torricel

The Seattle leadership meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum can become a wo

CONSIDERING the bruising battle in Congress over the North American Free Trade Agreement, would it b

The North American Free Trade Agreement, to be voted on today in Congress, represents a unique oppor

American output of goods and services should rise slightly more than $100 billion in 1994, down from

TONIGHT'S VOTE on the North American Free Trade Agreement will be painfully close. It shouldn't be.

Much of the brouhaha over the North American Free Trade Agreement is of Bill Clinton's own making. C

As Uruguay Round negotiators inch slowly toward their Dec. 15 deadline, their focus remains fixed on

Before Italy launched its "Clean Hands" anti-corruption investigation more than a year and a half ag

"Consumers (should) be asking some very tough questions about the high prices they are paying for tr

A LONELY VOICE FOR MARITIME REFORMIn his Nov. 4 letter to the editor ("Enough Said b

Even if the U.S. Congress rejects the North American Free Trade Agreement this week, at least one as

The Senate isn't expected to take up the House-passed maritime reform billbecause no one see

Attempting to understand the ills afflicting our health-care system is a lot like trying to peel an

ANOTHER COLD WAR institution, the 17-nation body that controlled high- technology exports to communi

ONE MONTH FROM TODAY, the 108 members of the GATT face the collapse of the Uruguay Round of trade ta

What's the big deal? You get a tea bag, boil some water and let it rip. It shouldn't take 10 years t

President Clinton and his corps of salesmen for the North American Free Trade Agreement have it half

IT'S HERESY these days to mention the North American Free Trade Agreement and not discuss jobs. But

ECONOMISTS ARE FAMOUS for being wrong more than they're right. Yet, the economists in the 1970s who

Alexander M. Yakovlev, a professor at the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Scien

CHINESE LEADERS are on the verge of a big decision: whether to deregulate the country's backward tel

US SHIPYARDS CAN COMPETEYour Oct. 29, front page article, "Foreign Shipyards Scour U.S. for

THIS MONTH, Congress faces two crucial votes that will help to separate lawmakers who are serious ab

Dear President Castro: The Cuban Air Force pilots who recently defected to the United States

The countdown to the fateful vote on the North American Free Trade Agreement has just seven days to

IT'S A SCENE Woody Allen does well: A less-than-suave restaurant patron tries madly to attract a wai

WHY AMERICANS NEED THE ICCThe many ill-founded assertions in Lawrence Lesser's recen

The numbers make for disturbing reading: 17 million unemployed (more than 11 percent of the work for

AL GORE will have his work cut out for him tonight. Fortunately, the vice president will have the fa

Should U.S. maritime policy and U.S. tax dollars actively support foreign-flag ships that pay their

SOME 50 MILLION AMERICANS depend on corporate or union pensions for at least part of theirretirement