Commentary

STAND ON SPILL BILL APPALLS OIL INDUSTRYIt is with great displeasure that I read the editori

UNCLE SAM'S EMPTY POCKETS increasingly are weakening America's influence on the international scene.

WHEN THE EXXON VALDEZ hit the rocks off Alaska last March, a U.S. company with deep pockets was at h

'INEFFICIENT' LABEL DOESN'T FIT SHIPYARDSYour editorial, "Sealift Policy" (Oct. 20), leaves

Next Monday, ministers from 12 Pacific Rim countries will gather in Canberra, Australia, to discuss

WASHINGTON - "That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where onc

Health policy makers, members of Congress and state legislators have turned their attention northwar

Washington gave Wall Street a powerful tranquilizer last week. According to the Commerce Department,

Sharply focused television pictures of tumbling houses and falling bridgesections, with San

FEW COMMODITIES ARE MORE VITAL to a modern economy than oil. And few examples of environmental degra

On Sept. 4, 1986, the Standard & Poor's composite stock price index closed at a new historic high of

OIL SPILL STAND SHOWS LACK OF INFORMATIONWe have read with surprise and even with sadness th

The unswerving conviction and strength of belief that contributed so much toward the Thatcher phenom

INTERNATIONAL TALKS ON CURBING FARM subsidies have gone nowhere since 1987, when the United States c

Later this year, Congress will consider legislation to raise the debt limit for the federal governme

THE PERPETUAL WAR OF WORDS between the fiercely competitive trucking and railroad industries has tak

Most Americans, and perhaps many others in the world as well, are having difficulty adjusting to the

PRESIDENT BUSH HAS FRITTERED away much of his first year in office picking fights with Congress over

AS WESTERN EUROPE moves toward unity, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's opposition to a Eur

STATE REGULATION of interstate commerce holds the potential for economic chaos, as business is subje

The Socialist Unity Party, the ruling communist party of the German Democratic Republic, is locked i

SPILL LIABILITY STAND GETS LOW MARKSWe have read with concern and dismay your Oct. 17 editor

ONLY THE THREAT OF COMMUNISM and the scourge of drugs, Latin Americans rightly complain, manage to p

The speech wasn't thrilling. An officer from the Army Corps of Engineers was droning on about how hi

1992 is the year in which the Single European Act is to make 12 national markets into one Europe-wid

LIABILITY FOR SPILLS MUST BE LIMITEDYour Oct. 17 editorial, "Forgiving Oil Spills," suggests

THE FREE TRADE AGREEMENT between Canada and the United States has faced its first serious test. To t

There is a land that uses large wall maps to impress upon its children, from the start of their form

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY Samuel Skinner could use a compass to navigate the heavy weather buffeting

Now that the bruising fight to correct last year's catastrophic care blunder is going into its final

Almost every year since the passage of The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, known as

World financial markets regained their composure almost as quickly as they lost it in the market cra

PRODUCTIVE GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT? Many would label it an oxymoron. But last week, Michael Boskin, ch

ON THE NEAR SIDE of the field, charging in to help bolster the Soviet defense, there's . . . it can'

EARTHQUAKE AID IS ACKNOWLEDGEDAs the stories of community spirit and heroism begin to trickl

The ritual slanging match that characterizes every meeting of the world's largest club has once agai

THE REORGANIZATION of Hungary's parliament has led Matyas Szuros, the country's interim leader, to d

Since 1986, analysts have warned that congressional and presidential lip service about the federal d

MARTHA HESSE, CHAIRMAN of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and FERC member Charles Stalon b

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY Samuel K. Skinner says he and newly appointed Maritime Administrator Warren