Commentary

Most U.S. business leaders have chosen to sit and watch the Gorbachev-Yeltsin drama rather than beco

WE HEAR SO MUCH about non-tariff trade barriers in other countries that it's always surprising and d

DON'T ABOLISH PORT CRIMEFIGHTERSThis is in response to your recent editorial calling for the

Perhaps the approach of the summer solstice accounts for what has gone on here this past week. Primi

A CALIFORNIA FEDERAL APPEALS COURT ruled wisely last week that U.S. insurers are not exempt from ant

As the United States struggles out of its recessionary hole, Japan and West Germany are still roarin

World trade in textiles is governed by an intricate system of international restrictions. Although t

ENVIRONMENTALISTS OFTEN CLASH with government, but now the two sides can't even agree on when a disa

Slumped over the counter at a sleazy Osaka bar aptly dubbed Rocinante - after Don Quixote's sad hors

After eleven hours of emotional debate, after months of wrenching discussions, the German Parliament

RISK OF CARGO LOSSES WAS OVERSTATEDYour article "Use of Defective Sea Containers Has Cargo I

MARITIME SUBSIDIES DON'T WORK. When the Bush administration delivered that simple message to Congres

IT'S BEING CALLED "MORE THAN a breakthrough." At least that's what one guerrilla leader is calling t

Democrats in Congress never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. They squandered one last mon

LOST AMID THE FUROR over last week's Senate debate on highway spending was a small success for natio

Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of converting military industry to civilian use, first announced in Decem

A NASTY, SIX-YEAR DISPUTE over shipments of Canadian pork to the United States finally came to a clo

Banking lobbyists are complaining to Congress that insurance companies and agents want it both ways

Japanese think they live in a distinctive, self-contained society that below the veneer of Westerniz

Now that the Israeli government has requested $13 billion of aid for the losses to the economy cause

The removal by Congress of many burdensome regulations from the trucking, railroad and maritime indu

TRY AS THEY MIGHT, government and industry rarely work well together. When the House cut a $24 milli

School is out. Children large and small are bringing report cards home, touting good grades as examp

MALPRACTICE FEES ARE ON THE DECLINEYour editorial, "Medicine for Malpractice," (May 20) cont

JUST AFTER SOVIET PRESIDENT Mikhail Gorbachev has put out one domestic fire the coal miners strike

The European Community's plans for economic and monetary union are losing steam. The slowdown is sur

LIFTING U.S. TRADE SANCTIONS against South Africa would send a powerful message of political approva

In 1980, U.S. typewriter makers were drowning in a sea of import competition,mainly from Jap

THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR announced last week that it is suing two companies for endangering employee

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's request for massive Western aid to support internal reforms has

The road to united Europe was never smooth. Lately, however, it has seemed all but impassable. This

The socialist stumped the capitalist. What country outside of North America, the socialist w

Japan is a bureaucrat's daydream - a country where corporations actually cooperate when officials as

After approving a $1 billion loan to Moscow for agricultural purchases, President Bush plans to put

FREE TRADE DOES NOT COME CHEAPLY. The new semiconductor trade agreement between the United States an

Four months ago, British Prime Minister John Major was basking in the glow of opinion polls that rat

IN THE WAKE OF THE GULF WAR, Japan seems determined not to limit its role to financier in other worl

THE INTER-AMERICAN Development Bank is about to approve its first loan in line with the Bush adminis

When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, he wasn't trying to link people in different loca

In nominating Robert Strauss as his ambassador to Moscow earlier this month, President Bush said the