Commentary

The closest I ever came to military service was three years of high school Reserve Officers' Trainin

Early on it was supposed to be a lower house election that would end 34 years of rule by Japan's bus

A HANDFUL OF INSIDER traders has gone to jail, but run-of-the-mill violators of the securities laws

West Germany's leadership finally has awakened to the reality that East German Prime Minister Hans M

The plight of the Delaware & Hudson Railway comes before Congress and a bankruptcy court as the resu

NEED SOME EXTRA ENERGY? Just eat a bowl of Kellogg's Rice Krispies, fortified with extra "energy-rel

QUAKE COVERAGE COST COULD ROCK ECONOMYYour wire service story, "Industry Calls for Federal Q

THEY'RE LOOKING AT ANOTHER TIGHT budget year in Washington. But some of the fiscal year 1991 budgets

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY Samuel Skinner seems to like nothing better than a good study. But after ni

SHOREHAM PLANT SHOULD BE USEDThe article "Electric Power Demand Increases in Northeast" (Dec

IS CALIFORNIA STARTING another tax trend? The Alcohol Tax Initiative Committee is gathering signatur

Almost a year after Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady launched the plan that bears his name, and whi

Consolidating the ongoing Mexican economic reform is in the forefront of President Carlos Salinas de

Back when the American League had only eight teams and the New York Yankees seemed to be champion ev

Cocom, the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls, was formed in 1949 to prevent t

EVEN AS DREXEL was offering deals too good to be true on Wall Street, a similar activity was under w

DREXEL BURNHAM LAMBERT INC., the investment house that created the junk bond as a form of corporate

INSURERS NOT HEADED FOR INSOLVENCY CRISISI strongly dispute the assertion that deficiencies

Officials from the United States and the 16 other nations that comprise Cocom - the Coordinating Com

The success of an undertaking as ambitious as the 1992 project to create a single European market is

NELSON MANDELA, released Sunday after nearly three decades as one of the world's best-known politica

THE MOMENTUM TOWARD ONE GERMANY well may be unstoppable. But West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's pr

Hardly anyone noticed, but President Bush called for a radical transformation of American society i

THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPORTANCE OF wetlands has been known for decades, but it was only last November

Americans have rather badly misgauged the meaning of events in Eastern Europe. What has been greeted

Speaking to the Guild of Business Travel Agents here late last month, Cecil Parkinson, Britain's tra

THAT STYLISH ITALIAN SUIT, as many an American traveler has learned, probably costs more in Milan th

DOUBLE BOTTOMS CAN BE HAZARDOUSThe Journal of Commerce's editorial of Jan. 9 ("Double Bottom

By far the least developed element on the way to an economic and monetary union is the institutional

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is demonstrating renewed interest in rooting out corruption in the Internati

''The primary economic goal of my administration," President Bush told the nation in his annual eco

THE COLD WAR THAW has yet to make it to East Asia. While the two Germanys are dismantling their bor

What can shippers, truckers and railroads expect from Edward J. Philbin, the new Interstate Commerce

For many years I did not get involved in any Soviet trade, believing the enormity of the country and

World trade advances and retreats in much the same manner as the business cycle. There have

TRANSPORTATION POLICY ISN'T A WASTE OF TIMEYour Feb. 1 editorial, "Wasting Time," which was

AT THE OUTSET OF 1989, The Journal of Commerce laid out 12 of the major issues we expected our reade

F.W. DE KLERK has awakened South Africans from their desperation. The president's bold announcement

THERE'S NOT MUCH "TRANSPORTATION" in federal transportation policy. The Department of Transportation

The proposal that the U.S. Customs Service charge importers a fee to consider classification ruling