Commentary

S. KOREA CONTINUES TRADE LIBERALIZATIONYour Jan. 11 editorial, "South Korean Crisis," has pr

EMOTIONS CHANGE QUICKLY during wartime. Minutes before the United States launched its nighttime assa

''I know where the line is, and I did not cross it." That's what Sen. Dennis DeConcini, D-Ar

The objective, according to the veteran military transportation specialist, is simple: Provide your

The road to monetary union for the European Community is strewn with pitfalls. Economic difficulties

PAN AM CORP.'S CHAPTER 11 FILING last week overshadowed an important aviation story that has been bu

''To err is human, but if the eraser wears out before the pencil, you better watch out." - Apocrypha

The U.S. maritime industry is ill-prepared to combat the onslaught of terrorism that would accompany

About mid-January, someone at the Ministry for International Trade and Industry in Tokyo looks at th

BEIJING'S SKETCHY EIGHTH five-year economic plan could be the blueprint for significant market-orien

WHEN THE SHOOTING STARTS in the Middle East, and there seems only the slightest chance now that it c

JAPAN'S BOX RULES NOT A CONSPIRACYMichael B. Smith's letter (Jan. 3) states that he is going

OIL SELLING AT $75 a barrel? Higher inflation? Tighter credit? A skyrocketing budget deficit? Consum

The broad efforts to privatize and reinvigorate former East German enterprises have met so much conf

In Budapest, people wait in line for Levi jeans, not food. The market stalls are well-stocked with o

IT MAY NOT MATTER MUCH whether Mikhail Gorbachev actually ordered the crackdown in Lithuania over th

While rumors of the death of the world trade talks have been widely exaggerated, so too are expectat

WHY WOULD A COMPANY abandon a natural gas well with plenty of reserves and then spend money to drill

ALL EYES ARE FOCUSED on the Persian Gulf as the Tuesday United Nations' deadline for an Iraqi withdr

Two of the more powerful Democrats on trade policy in Congress are weighing runs for the presidency

The Department of Energy has been building an emergency response capability for crude oil and petrol

It's too bad that Bill Seidman and Bob Clarke can't step in and seize the federal government - the b

SOUTH KOREA IS POISED to become one of the great economic success stories of the 1990s, but it is al

The deteriorating international position of many U.S. industries in the past two decades has raised

REMEMBER WHEN, more than two years ago, sponsors of the Omnibus Trade Act and the Reagan administrat

Now that the Marxist-Leninist economies have failed in practice, the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary,

The Uruguay Round of trade talks under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade has come to an imp

THE PURCHASE OF MCA Inc. by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. of Japan touched a sensitive xenophob

In the days just prior to and after the German invasion of Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, there was a flur

IF YOU SPENT TIME in a congested airport over the holidays, take heart - help may be on the way. The

LAW DOESN'T BENEFIT PORT OF LAKE CHARLESYour article headlined "Port of Lake Charles Benefit

For too many years, the ground rules for competition between and within the Democratic and Republica

The state of the nation is grim at the midpoint of the Bush administration. The country is on the br

PAN AM CORP.'s decision Tuesday to file for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the ba

"Keiretsu" is today a fighting word in trade negotiations between the United States and Japan. To th

RECESSION AND LAYOFFS, unfortunately, go hand in hand. As more companies are forced to make tough de

A generation ago there were two coffee shops in Constitution Square, Zavourites and Zaharatous, to w

A friend recently called me from the newest country in the world - Namibia. Formerly a South African

EACH DAY BRINGS MORE BAD NEWS for the nation's ailing banking system. The latest shock waves hit Sun

BASE AUTO INSURANCE ON MILES DRIVENYour report, "Higher Gasoline Prices Won't Cut Crash Clai