Commentary

IN THE FACE OF LEGAL UNCERTAINTY and political pressure, the U.S. Department of Transportation has d

Costa Rica isn't a very big place. If you want to run for public office, you don't do it in a very b

Last week marked the swearing in of a new president of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel, who was until a

IN MATTERS OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE, perception often is as important as reality. For that rea

FLAG IMPORT BAN HITS FREEDOM OF CHOICESome "patriotic" groups and legislators are proposing

A few years ago, "Genscherism" became an epithet as West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Gensc

THE RETIREMENT OF NEARLY 1,500 New York dockworkers is good news for users of the nation'slargest co

A CLEARER WARNING has rarely been issued. But it appears that not even the sorry saga of New England

What if Manuel Antonio Noriega were finally brought to justice in the United States? The invasion of

The suddenness of the apparent end of the Cold War has left this city, and probably a few other worl

Much time and energy here are devoted to proving there is a significant difference between the Repub

A PICTURE OF A STAGNANT ECONOMY is becoming clearer by the day. Each morning's paper brings news of

The upheaval in Eastern Europe that set history on a new course also has straightened out some kinks

The 1950s was the American Decade, the 1970s a decade that belonged to OPEC, and the 1960s is still

All of us who love the sea should give a resounding welcome to the first year of the last decade of

The 1990s are off to a good start. By any reasonable standard, the world is at peace. Democracy is o

FROM THE RISE of the microprocessor to the fall of the Berlin wall, the 1980s was a decadeof the une

Barely six months ago, the European Community's program to create the world's biggest single trade b

ABOUT 500,000 TIMES A DAY, shipments of hazardous materials ranging from household bleach to nuclea

Out of the mouths of babes: After the big flap over the so-called Thanksgiving Day mistake by the Fe

Stories of foreign companies buying control of U.S. real estate and businesses leap from the headli

THE PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION has problems aplenty: a backlog of 140 vessels stemming from the canal's

THINGS ARE BACK TO NORMAL in Argentina. Six months after Carlos Menem, pledging sweeping economic re

About five minutes after I brazenly offered to write a defense of the 1980s, I figured I'd made a bi

Three weeks before the Berlin Wall became a sieve, a brigade of VOPOs (Volkspolizei), East German bo

The strengthening of the yen against the dollar since 1985 failed to make U.S. exports more competit

They are among East Germany's best and brightest, this little group of articulate students from Humb

IMPORT DUMPING is not one of the world's greater sins. But in the midst of complicated negotiations

U.S. officials were stunned when, mere weeks after a major announcement at the Malta summit of new U

TO THE AVERAGE TAXPAYER, the idea that a government regulatory commission should have public meeting

Dear Manny, I got your message but I've been slow to answer because I realize that things ha

Words for "freedom" are spreading like wildfire in the communist worldbecause of increased o

IN A ROAR OF FURY and a hail of bullets, Eastern Europe's most dictatorial communist regime has fall

U.S. intervention in Panama and the threat of civil war in Romania dominated the headlines over the

As he drove along the crowded highway following the lovely moat around Emperor Akihito's palace earl

MEMBERSHIP IN THE COMMUNITY of trading nations "can't be given to our friends like a goldcard," U.S.

Back in the early 1960s, when the Federal Reserve resumed official foreign exchange operations after

IT WAS CHEAP LABOR and a healthy U.S. import quota that enabled Taiwan to build one of theworld's la

The great unwrapper of unseen government activity is the Freedom of Information Act, a law passed in

AUTOMOTIVE AIR POLLUTION CONTROLS are proving difficult for Congress to agree on. But state governme