Commentary

WASHINGTON IS CAUTIOUSLY moving toward lifting its 15-year-old trade embargo against Vietnam. But Ha

ARMAND HAMMER LIVED to see the Cold War end, which is fortunate since no one in the last 40 years se

According to the Labor Department, the United States lost 1.1 million jobs over the past five months

Eishiro Saito is the chairman of Japan's largest business organization, but during the last four and

CRITICS OF BIG BUSINESS consider "corporate philanthropy" a contradiction in terms. Businesses, they

The world trade ministers' meeting in Brussels collapsed last week because the European Community re

POLITICIANS WHO RECEIVE 75 percent of the popular vote are quick to claim a mandate from the people.

The international maritime community is praying for a long, hard winter in the United States.

PRESIDENT BUSH'S GOODWILL tour of Latin America drew needed attention to a region that has endured a

During the past two years the Bush administration has put itself into a straitjacket with regard to

US NEEDS TO DEBATE MEXICAN TRADE PACTBen Tonra is right to suggest that more attention shoul

The genetic-engineering wizardry that tricks cows into producing more milk is under attack as potent

The invasion of Kuwait by Iraq in early August, and the doubling of oil prices, has returned attenti

WHETHER OR NOT WAR BREAKS OUT, the United States will be in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia for months, even

TRADE NEGOTIATORS WHO are not serious about negotiating are doomed to failure. That's the best way t

The International Monetary Fund is close to completing its study of the Soviet economy - a basic ste

THE RUSSIAN REPUBLIC'S emergency meeting on land reform earlier this week yielded watered-down resul

ONCE UPON A TIME there were two beggars. They found a loaf of bread and began to argue over it. They

Our puritanism always seems to get the better of our environmentalism. At least that's the way I rea

Tucked away in the deficit reduction bill signed by President Bush on Nov. 5 was a very important pr

POLICY MUST SUPPORT US MERCHANT MARINEI refer to your editorial "Skinner's Choice" (Nov. 19)

ELECTRICITY IS ONE OF THE NATION'S most reliable and inexpensive commodities. But if the federal reg

POLISH CITIZENS ARE GETTING a taste of democracy at its ugliest. This Sunday, they will vote in runo

ARGENT MARINE IS ALL AMERICANYour editorial (Nov. 21) criticizing the Marad sale of two laid

Bush administration policy on food assistance for the Soviet Union may be marching to the beat of a

Given the perceived recession and the growing instability of conditions in the Persian Gulf, it is l

THE PROPOSED MERGER of Southern California Edison Co. and its neighbor, San Diego Gas and Electric

Life, someone once said, is unfair. Others narrow the proposition and proclaim that some tra

A MOOD OF GLOOM prevails in Brussels among delegates to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

New economic data has confirmed that the economy is in a free fall. As the recession deepens, the fr

Reforming the international anti-dumping code, which sets standards for determining if importers are

PRESIDENT BUSH KNEW HE would invite the wrath of Congress when he met with Chinese Foreign Minister

A black market currency dealer in the lobby of the top-rated Forum Hotel in Bratislava, Czechoslovak

Despite Mikhail Gorbachev's richly deserved Nobel Peace Prize, some Japanese leaders still speak of

WHEN YOU'RE THE U.S POSTAL SERVICE, you don't worry about competition for first class mail. Postal m

TANKER PURCHASER NOT RELATED TO SHELLWe appreciate that your editorial "Good Citizens?" (Nov

When U.S. legislators recently considered the usually humdrum subject of export reform, they sparked

Snarled traffic in many of the Third World's largest cities has led to the construction of new rail

WITH THE FUTURE OF the multilateral trading system hanging in the balance, the world's trade ministe

An internal State Department telex from Osaka, Japan, is causing wry amusement here. The muc