Commentary

IT'S TIME TO LIFT the U.S. trade embargoes against Vietnam and Cuba. Embargoes are imposed to protec

SOME RECOVERY. The 1990-1991 recession ended officially in March, 1991 but there's been prec

COFFEE AGREEMENT ISN'T HARMFULYour Aug. 16 editorial, "Hill of Beans" (Page 8A), contends th

EVERYONE AGREES it will be costly to extend health coverage to 35 million uninsured Americans; even

Al From, head of the Democratic Leadership Council since its founding and a campaign adviser to both

During last year's presidential campaign, Bill Clinton and Al Gore spoke frequently of the need to c

A central pillar of President Clinton's economic program is to substantially boost spending on "inve

The U.S. government appears on the verge of substantially downsizing its commitment to foreign aid a

POLAND'S 1990 BIG BANG launched an economic renaissance. Today, a market economy has taken root and

GENTILITY knows no bounds of nationality, as the British Tea Council evidently concluded this week.

The train marked "European Union" that rolled out of the Dutch city of Maastricht in a festive mood

If the yen, rapidly rising since February, reaches an exchange rate of 100 yen to the dollar, Japane

THERE'S LITTLE DOUBT the federal government is managed in a way that quickly would put a private com

DON'T SLAM INSURERS UNDER OPA 90It is not true that a single claim under the Oil Pol

IN BETWEEN his budget fight with Congress and his health care pitch to the governors, President Clin

Domestic steel shipments rose 6.6 percent in the first five months of this year from a year earlier,

WITH BARELY A BREATHER after a head-battering budget battle, President Clinton has kicked off a pote

A basic law of modern science is that two wire coat hangers, left alone in a cool, dark closet, will

Earlier this month, President Carlos Salinas de Gortari jetted to Chihuahua, Mexico, for Thursday an

Journalists live in morbid fear that all hell will break loose as soon as they go on vacation or lea

Opponents of privatization are trying to persuade the Clinton administration to reverse a Bush admin

BILL CLINTON'S SIDE DEALS to the North American free-trade agreement strike a sensible balance betwe

RESTORE REALISM TO MARITIME DEBATEWinn B. Frank, a transportation consultant, writes in a re

Sensing that it plays a strategically important role in the West's struggle to contain the war in Bo

Why are so many scientists gloomy these days? Because they have finally realized that the go-go days

THE NEW ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL for antitrust, Anne K. Bingaman, has strong views on competition

In his campaign policy paper, "Putting People First," then-Gov. Bill Clinton vowed to pare the feder

THE COFFEE CARTEL is back - sort of. Discouraged by the prospects of reviving a worldwide ag

Former Maryland Gov. Harry Hughes is under consideration by the Clinton administration to fill a slo

Is it cause for excitement or despair when an entrepreneur has a new (or rediscovered) product for w

Now that Japan has a new government, composed of splinter groups of the Liberal Democratic Party, ho

Despite its current difficulties with the Maastricht unification treaty, the European Community is p

JAPAN'S NEW COALITION GOVERNMENT may be more forward-looking than critics suggest. Elsewhere

PREDATORY PRICING CHARGES, like those beaten back by American Airlines in a Texas courtroom this wee

THE CLEAR LESSON from the bruising battle over President Clinton's budget is that most voters still

VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE'S government review panel has attacked some of the maritime industry's most c

After assembling a ruling coalition following his majority victory in June's popular vote, Gonzolo S

In the last week of July, a familiar financial melodrama played out on the world stage. A noble curr

REFLAGGING US SHIPS: ANSWERING THE CRITICSThe announced reflagging of some U.S. ships by Sea

CONTROLLING POLLUTION is nothing new; preventing it is. That's what the printing industry, Great Lak