Commentary

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

Commercial policy always has been a form of strategic weapon. Thomas Jefferson, discussing relations

Donald Phillips is a Maryland University academic now heading up the industry section in Carla Hills

AT LONG LAST, maritime policy has caught the attention of the White House. The National Security Sea

Developing new collective bargaining agreements in the railroad industry is, at best, a long and com

AFTER A YEAR OF SCANDAL on the futures exchanges in Chicago and New York, one might think that the

Try to get a free lunch in America. Most free meals are confined to breakfast and lunch programs for

When the federal Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, an awesome responsibility was thrust up

SEALIFT CHIEF WANTS PROCUREMENT CHANGESAs a follow-up to your Publisher's Notebook (Oct. 5),

There's an old Peanuts cartoon that begins with Charlie Brown on a pitcher's mound. The other member

It is time for transportation policy to recognize that information transmission is the single most i

THERE'S NOTHING NEW about politics keeping the United States from adhering to its international trad

KINGSTON, R.I., is not among the nation's busier transportation centers. But for Amtrak, the governm

THE FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD resists rules for managing the money supply with every ounce of its streng

For years Japan has cultivated a postwar image of itself as a peace-loving society that had eradicat

Japan should have a tough retaliatory measure ready if the Bush administration invokes sanctions aga

Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas F. Brady is the very model of a modern Republican. In pub

When top airline industry executives like Ben Cosgrove of Boeing declare, ''Safety is No. 1," the re

It is bad enough that President Bush sits mute in the face of the Chinese government's savage repres

AN OIL SPILL LIABILITY bill pending in the House of Representatives would shield thetransportation a

THE GOVERNMENT'S ANTI-DRUG crusaders have been much more eager to arrest those who use drugs than to

The powerful Franco-German alliance that is shaping the economic and political contours of the Europ

Dr. George Abed, executive director of the Geneva-based Palestine Welfare Association, has proposed

Americans and Japanese are more similar than dissimilar. Both peoples are highly competitive. But bo

With an eye to the next negotiations with Japan under the "Structural Impediments Initiative," U.S.

IN A FIT OF DEMOCRATIC VIRTUE, the House Aviation Subcommittee Thursday postponed legislating on air

REFORESTING AMERICA is President Bush's latest campaign; he has taken to planting trees during visit

RARELY HAS A FINANCE MINISTER faced as formidable a task as that awaiting Leszek Balcerowitz.

Industrialized nations rarely have been willing to squander their national institutions for politica

Electronics, they say, is breaking down the distinctions in the information business. Newspapers wan

Due to a typographical error, the name of Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen, a consumer or

It has the feel of a lottery. Thousands of people flee their homelands in Central America or the Car

HIGH ON OUR LIST of favorite propaganda tracts is Philip Morris Magazine, a glossy bimonthly designe

UNFAIRNESS IS A HOT-BUTTON issue in Washington: Be it Japan's exclusion of foreign construction cont

As representatives of many nations left Washington following the World Bank/ International Monetary

On a wall in the reception area outside the office of the Federal MaritimeCommission chairma

SLOCUM FUND RAISERS MUST EDUCATE DONORSI have read with interest and disappointment your art

ATTACKING CONSUMER GROUPS isn't a terribly constructive undertaking, but it has become an obsession

In 1974, Congress enacted a trade law that included an unprecedented provision. Called the J

A REVAMPED TAX CREDIT for research and development, now in the final stages of congressional approva