Commentary

It's neither new nor surprising that trade frictions within the European Community have been caused

AMERICAN CREWS IN WAR ZONESThe recent letter you published from Mr. Philip Loree ("R

Opponents of the North American free-trade agreement have added illegal immigration to the list of s

ONE OF BILL CLINTON'S first trips as president was to Silicon Valley, where he pledged government su

AMAZING. It wasn't just the swiftness of events leading to Monday's Middle East peace accord

President Clinton is to decide by Tuesday whether to renew trade embargoes on such countries as Cuba

ON THE SURFACE, Friday's news from international economists that the U.S. recovery remains on track

FRANK LORENZO'S record as an airline manager is nothing to brag about. Two of the carriers he ran in

DOMINICANS PROTECT LABOR RIGHTSAs ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the United States,

He assumed office with barely a mandate to govern, his first six months on the job were uninspiring

The federal government does at least one thing well: It generates red tape. In fact, the government

The contrast on the front page of an Argentine daily newspaper was startling. On one side, Nicholas

In the early evening of Aug. 6, Al Gore cast the deciding vote for Bill Clinton's budget, which will

BY NOW, most Americans have at least some idea of what President Clinton has in mind for the nation'

The packet containing the details of my college class' 25-year reunion arrived at my home last week,

The Clinton administration has promised to place more emphasis on respect for labor rights by U.S. t

WHEN GOVERNMENT can't make a tough choice, it names a commission. It should surprise no one, then, t

WHILE MULTILATERAL trade talks drag on, regional blocs are gathering strength, particularly in the e

WHAT IS 'EFFECTIVE US CONTROL' OF SHIPS?Phillip Loree's Aug. 12 letter, "Reflagging US Ships

Japan's opposition to U.S. calls for managed trade will be seen as mere Kabuki posturing unless Toky

THE HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM is nothing if not complex, with a welter of payors, insurers and providers.

Yields on long-term Treasury bonds finally broke through the magic 6 percent barrier last week. The

With some 35 million people out of work in the industrialized nations, unemployment is widely consid

PRESIDENT CLINTON held up a copy of Al Gore's "reinventing government" report Tuesday and twice said

The Clinton administration proudly released its mid-session review of the fiscal year 1994federal bu

COFFEE PRODUCERS' PLAN IS FAIRYour Aug. 16 editorial, "Hill of Beans," (Page 8A) was

NORTHEASTERN STATES are fighting a dirty battle over clean air. Several states in the region

The container shipping trades may soon be embroiled in a fresh fight with the European Commission am

UNDER PRESSURE from their government, Japanese companies are gradually dismantling their "keiretsu"

Peter Sutherland, the new director general of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, is casting

Two recent developments - AT&T's takeover of McCaw Cellular and a federal court ruling allowing Bell

Bill Clinton's drive to tame health-care costs must contend with a perverse statistical omen fresh o

WASHINGTON AND BEIJING are forever threatening to slam one another with trade sanctions. At the end

YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW IT from the daily traffic reports, but trucking has never been safer. Truck-rel

CALIFORNIA lawmakers are proposing a compromise in a decades-long dispute with Britain over the way

William Bywater, president of the International Union of Electronic Electrical Salaried Machine & Fu

GERMAN CHANCELLOR Helmut Kohl's irresponsible support of French efforts to scrap a critical U.S.-Eur

NEEDED: A DEBATE ON MARITIME POLICYI'd like to congratulate Don Becker for his Aug. 18 "Publ

A battle is shaping up in the House over a Senate-passed measure that would require risk and cost an

IT'S TWO STEPS FORWARD, one back, in drawn-out reconciliation efforts between China and Taiwan.<