Commentary

MARITIME REFORM PLAN HAS FLAWSIn their piece on the steps needed for maritime reform, ("Four

Felix Rohatyn, America's most respected investment banker, rode into Chicago last week with a warnin

WHEN IRAQI TANKS rolled into Kuwait seven months ago, the United States faced a series of diplomati

THE FEDERAL BACKUP fund for insolvent pension plans itself could fall short unless the administratio

LYNN MARTIN, WHO was sworn in last Friday as the new secretary of labor, began her tenure by pledgin

Since 1978, the United States has tried to export an aviation policy commonly known as "open skies."

ILL. AGENCY CLARIFIES REQUEST TO FERCIt has come to our attention that your article "Ill. Ag

Marshal Josip Broz Tito's version of a united Yugoslavia appears headed for the history books. The q

THE COUP WAS THE easy part. Setting up a new provisional government in Thailand is proving to be a m

The collapse of the private banking insurance system in Rhode Island surely signals the death knell

PRESIDENT BUSH THIS WEEK will send Congress a seemingly minor trade proposal that nonetheless could

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan assured Congress last week that the current recession would

Meet Bill Gill, consultant, author, lecturer and unabashed protectionist. Mr. Gill stopped b

The United States has shown that it no longer will "pay any price or bear any burden" to defend its

PORT DREDGING NEEDS RATIONAL APPROACHYour editorial "Clearing the Water" (Feb. 4) correctly

''UNITED WE STAND, divided we fall" should be the slogan of Slavic republics seeking economic prospe

IF THE DEVIL IS IN the details, the Department of Energy may have hell to pay once Congress begins

Aircraft financing in the United States today is extremely flexible and sophisticated, in part beca

There's an understandable sense of national pride as we marvel at Patriot missiles in flight or watc

THE CLOUDS SHADOWING the suspended world trade talks began to lift last week when negotiators agreed

The Mamas and Pappas once sang about California dreaming on a winter's day. These winter days, Calif

AFTER ONLY TWO MONTHS as Federal Maritime Commission chairman, Christopher L. Koch has begun to lea

FINANCIAL TURMOIL AMONG the world's airlines offers good examples of the right way - and the wrong w

The idea for a new international development bank should set off alarms for U.S. companies bidding f

THE UNITED STATES HAS SPENT the last 20 years searching for an energy policy that makes us less dep

Perrier, the chic drink of the 1980s, can't get its old market back. It has tried every conceivable

Freight transportation's shrinking share of the national economic pie may be mostly good news.

Japanese leaders don't like what they're hearing when they turn on their televisions and radios. It

WHEN GOVERNMENTS TRY to set the price or market share of imports and exports, productivity and growt

Recent information on the nation's economic performance provides mixed signals about the length and

Much of the war materiel used by allied forces in Saudi Arabia has been transported in commercial sh

GOVERNMENT REGULATION HAS ITS PLACE, but the ocean freight brokering business is not one of them.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE between the terms of Saddam Hussein's "cruel hoax" last week and those of th

The latest fashion among Soviet watchers is to bury Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika. But

Next to Saddam Hussein, the "credit crunch" is Washington's favorite scapegoat. Tight-fisted bankers

With Desert Storm's ground campaign approaching, allied forces will soon face weapons acquired by Ir

Congress is about to face a dilemma that will determine whether it has any significant voice in two

IT IS PAINFULLY IRONIC that as Germany struggles to rebuild the old government-controlled economy in

Chicago economist David Hale wants some credit. From his fecund mind comes this often-quoted, often-

TUCKED AWAY IN THE Bush administration's new highway spending plan is a novel concept for relieving