Commentary

ITALIANS TAKE THEIR PASTA VERY SERIOUSLY. Reuters reports that Italian authorities this week unleash

As the Uruguay Round of world trade talks moves toward a final, critical juncture, the United States

EVEN GEORGE BUSH, the old China hand, is running out of patience with Beijing's unfair trade policie

There is a strain of schizophrenia running through the current national debate on when to restrict f

There is no escaping it. Everywhere you turn in Britain these days, the issue is the same: Europe.

EXPAND MARITIME SUBSIDIESNational security and a balanced economy rely on a modern, diverse

THE TORTUOUS TALE of New Jersey's strained relations with auto insurers has taken another twist. A s

After a year in power in the most industrialized province of Canada, Ontario's socialists are discov

India's government is making many changes every day to increase the role of private enterprise in th

THERE'S A LOT TO LIKE in the new $151 billion national transportation bill that cleared the Congress

FOR 10 MONTHS the administration labored mightily to modernize banking laws that bar interstate bran

The Export-Import Bank is dickering with the Russian Republic's Bank for Foreign Trade before it sig

THE DECADES-OLD WAR between anti-smoking advocates and tobacco companies has become a battle for the

Snow has yet to fall on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but this is the winter of discontent for George Bu

THE PUSH-ME, PULL-YOU NATURE of the five-year Uruguay Round of trade talks is beginning to try the p

Intoxicated with public support, environmental activists celebrated last year after cajoling the thr

After months of painstaking negotiations between leaders of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and officials o

FED'S MONETARY POLICY IS BEST TOOLIn Don Becker's Oct. 30 column ("Publisher's Notebook," Pa

The international shipping community is taking quiet satisfaction in the fact that Americans probabl

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA'S transportation planners, who have been scrambling to relieve congestion around

Fidel Castro is turning Cuba into a supermarket for Third World nuclear technology. Delegations from

ADDING TO THE CONSIDERABLE WOES of Soviet citizens is news of impending coffee shortages in 1992. So

With very little fanfare, the U.S. Customs Service two months ago proposed new regulations that will

The Civil Rights Act of 1991, which President Bush signed Thursday, contained a little-noted but imp

The Bush administration isn't giving up on the national energy strategy bill crafted by Sen. Bennett

AN IDEOLOGICAL BATTLE IS UNDER WAY in the European Community that will determine how business is con

CONGRESS IS DOING ITS BEST to put McDonnell Douglas out of business. The St. Louis aircraft

Nuclear submarines and washing machines may have little in common, but they have even less in common

In voting last week to cap consumer credit card rates, U.S. senators undoubtedly thought they had ac

Who killed Midway Airlines? There's plenty of blame to go around.There are the obvious suspe

HEALTH CARE COSTS are spiraling out of control, prompting much hand-wringing in Washington and polic

Pearl Harbor's 50th anniversary is approaching, U.S.-Japan ties continue to be strained and Japan ha

SHIP INSPECTIONS AREN'T GOOD ENOUGHI noticed an article in your Nov. 15 edition ("GAO Says C

The next big question in the continuing debate over the pros and cons of foreign trade for the Ameri

India, facing default on its $65 billion foreign debt without an immediate injection of funds, annou

JAMES BAKER'S TRIP TO BEIJING on Sunday produced no breakthroughs on China's egregious humanrights p

Let's call it Country X. On its own motion, it is converting its economy from the communist

The sell-off in the global stock market last week was a monument to the stupidity of one man_ U.S. S

PROPOSED HIGH-SPEED passenger rail systems are the darling of U.S. transportation planners anxious t

Now that Congress has put new energy legislation on hold at least temporarily, policy-makers have a