Commentary

You know the story of a man without a country. The administration and Congress are about to

PRESIDENT BUSH PROMISED anxious environmentalists several months ago that a U.S.-Mexico free-trade a

In the understatement of the year, Salomon Inc., the nation's largest government bond dealer, on Aug

"When I ask for information, all I get is generalities and bureaucratic drivel," complained Miroslav

JET AIRCRAFT WILL BECOME a little quieter over the next decade as airlines are forced to replace or

As Prime Minister John Major arrived home in Britain Friday after his trip to China and Hong Kong, t

CRIES OF "YANKEE GO HOME" seemed to reach a crescendo Monday in the Philippines, where more than hal

A SHIPYARD BY ANY OTHER NAMEYour story on Crowley Maritime's decision to pursue a tanker con

Lobbying for trade interests on Capitol Hill is not what is used to be. Today, business lobbyists ap

THERE ARE DISTURBING SIGNS that South Korea has renewed the misguided anti- imports campaign it bega

The Bush administration this week is slated to give Congress its views on the 1990 U.S.-Soviet trade

FIDEL CASTRO IS DETERMINED to keep Cuba's one-party Communist government intact in the wake of Commu

MEXICO'S MID-TERM ELECTIONS were a test of Carlos Salinas de Gortari's commitment to political refor

As the controversy over unskilled foreign workers in Japan drags on, the illegal labor force has swe

Insurance, long discussed over stifled yawns, is now giving some people sleepless nights. The sharp

SCHOOLS ARE NOT ASSEMBLY LINES. Yet many would-be education experts cannot resist the temptation to

For the European Community, the revolution in the Soviet Union - and the chaos in Yugoslavia - have

OMNIPORT ARTICLE MISJUDGED REPORTThe Aug. 23 issue of your paper contained an article, "Port

The revolt of the Russian people against the Bolshevik coup was the first step on the path to buildi

UNION DEMOCRACY IS EXPENSIVE. The federal government has spent the last two years cleaning up the Te

TAXES INEVITABLY CREEP UPWARD, but they may be heading higher than anyone thought. Beyond th

Critics of the American airline industry point with horror to the surge in near-midair collisions -

In his role as chairman of the President's Council on Competitiveness, Vice President Dan Quayle has

MANAGEMENT ERRORS RAILROAD'S DOWNFALLI normally would not presume to comment on indu

Horror stories from luckless travelers about flight delays and long lines at Tokyo's Narita and Osak

FILING RATES WITH THE GOVERNMENT is one of the hallmarks of maritime regulation. But does rate filin

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER JOHN MAJOR wanted it known that his meeting with Chinese Premier LiPeng this

Cancel the funeral. Contrary to lugubrious reports, science in America is not expiring from financia

Waste management has become both a major environmental issue and a trade policy predicament. One cou

JAPAN'S IMAGE as a mercantilist nation is only reinforced by the latest trade figures. The Japanese

In responding to the gripping events in the Soviet Union, the European Community has done well to di

TEAMSTERS, LONGSHOREMEN, locomotive engineers the names fairly ring with the sound of militant unio

On the subject of political parties, humorist Will Rogers once stated: "I belong to no organized par

AUTO IMPORTS STORY MISSING SOME FACTSWe have read your article, "In the Land of the

In these heady, revolutionary times, Russian President Boris Yeltsin is emerging as a Latin-style st

Twenty West African countries have launched a collective bid to confront the multibillion-dollar glo

No one is weeping today for the death of communism or totalitarianism in the Soviet Union, least of

"HOW CAN THERE BE TALK of building communism when the revisionist . . . cliques are leading the Sovi

There is not much here now: a stone slab, the rusted cover of what may have been a cistern, two seve

The collapse of the Iron Curtain has brought home the dismal failure of economic central planning. I