Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The airline industry is expected to report staggering fourth-quarter losses as a result of the sharp

I can give you all the fancy reasons we appear to be in a recession, butsomehow they don't

IS THE U.S. ECONOMY in a recession? Economists have been debating that question for months, but the

Americans should be repulsed by the spectacle of United Airlines and American Airlines picking like

IT WON'T CORRECT the dire Soviet food shortage expected this winter, but leaders in the Russian Repu

ILLINOIS' TRUCKING REGULATORS can't make up their minds. Last summer, state officials struck a blow

IT'S GETTING HARDER to tell the U.S. automakers from the Japanese automakers. Toyota Motor Co.'s ann

POINT, COUNTERPOINT ON DUMPING POLICYTrade lawyer Paul Rosenthal's rebuttal of Thomas Thomps

The Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is scheduled to conclude at a minist

The Bush administration, Congress and much of the surface transportation industry will do battle nex

IT'S BEING CALLED "an accident in Polish democracy." When roughly 16 million Poles turned out to vot

Yoshihito Watanabe glanced at the office windows and was pleased to see there was no moon to lighten

VIETNAMESE OFFICIALS say they hope all the factions in the 12-year-old civil war in Cambodia will em

The news media and the government recently figured out that we're in a recession. Some busin

A major confrontation is brewing between the Federal Reserve, the administration and Congress. With

Being American means never having to say you're sorry. We're always the guys with the white hats. We