Commentary

The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait just may assure Margaret Thatcher a fourth term of office. As G

JAPAN HAS MORE TO LOSE in the event of prolonged conflict in Saudi Arabia than any other industriali

I've never considered George Bush to rank among history's more fascinating personalities. My four-ye

CONSUMER PRICES have risen at an annual rate of 5.8 percent during the first seven months of this y

The idea of single-state insurance regulation is in the air. In place of the present hodgepodge of s

THE REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS of supplying a huge military force far from U.S. soil may prompt Pentagon pl

RATE FILING SYSTEM MUST BE CONTINUEDI read with interest your July 30, 1990, editorial, "Neg

The United States is determined to end Japan's prohibition on rice imports. In the current Uruguay R

Ronald Reagan often called for political pluralism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Then with

THE FIRST SHOT HAS BEEN FIRED in the ongoing standoff between New Jersey insurance regulators and 32

PAKISTAN JUST CAN'T GET THE HANG of democracy. While its larger neighbor, India, has struggled to m

Congress, just before the recess, passed a miscellaneous trade bill revamping the U.S. Customs user

WITH 20,000 U.S. TROOPS, the Bush administration has drawn a line in the Saudi Arabian sand. But tha

Antique shops properly exhibit an attachment to things old and curious. But when a federal agency st

TRANSACTION TAX WOULD HIT ECONOMYI take issue with a July 23 article by Edward Renshaw, "Why

OUR READERS, we believe, are entitled to their say. For that reason, it is the general policy of thi

POLITICIANS USUALLY DON'T GET MUCH CREDIT for learning. But the cold political response to the self-

The Bush administration's first reaction to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait was predictable: impose "ec

PREFERENCE 'STUDY' IS PROPAGANDAFacts that have just come to light with respect to the origi

After a year of hectic activity, leaders of the European Community's member states were looking forw

IT'S HARD TO DO BATTLE when you don't have your troops behind you. The five- year farm bills approve

BUSH ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS are looking into charges that some Japanese construction firms have tr

Japan's bureaucrats, the best and brightest who keep the machinery of government humming, are the co

CONGRESS HAS DONE MORE than its share to bring about the thrift industry crisis, which will end up c

You've probably never heard of Holderbank Financiere. It's a name you might want to remember, for th

MARITIME BILL BASED ON MISINFORMATIONThose who ask why misguided maritime proposals occasion

Before Carlos Salinas de Gortari swore the presidential oath in December 1988, cynics in Mexico clai

The 1980s witnessed a new phenomenon on the national economic scene: the rising sun of Japanese auto

PRESIDENT ALBERTO FUJIMORI may not be calling his latest economic austerity measures a "shock," but

IF YOU LIVE IN DETROIT, St. Louis, Charlotte or Houston, you don't have much choice when it comes t

THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY'S never-ending campaign for protection against imports has received a boost fro

Nuclear cooperation between Argentina and Brazil has raised hopes that a new ''Latinatom" organizati

HANDS-OFF POLICY BEST FOR CARIBBEANYour editorial, "Unrest in the Caribbean" (August 3), arg

TWENTY YEARS AFTER LUNG CANCER victims began suing the asbestos industry, more than 100,000 claims

Until the early 1970s, both Europe and the United States relied primarily on the "direct expenditur

Outwardly at least, Japan appears to be a thoroughly homogenous country, give or take a few hundred

American imports of Soviet logs may have the unintended effect of helping Japan depend less on the U

THERE'S AN UNUSUAL SILENCE in Washington this week, and Congress' August recess is not thecause. Few

FOR A DECADE, the U.S. government has been pouring billions of dollars - and hundreds of millions of

The 1990 oil shock, like its predecessors in 1973 and 1979, will intensify the coming recession in t