Commentary

AMERICA HAS A DRUG PROBLEM. Punishment, it is amply clear, will not make that problem go away. Treat

THE RESOUNDING VICTORY of socialist and environmentalist groups in elections for the European Parlia

Buried in the 1,000-page Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 is a provision which requires

In a cartoon of the Bonn-Moscow summit meeting last week, Soviet PresidentMikhail Gorbachev

IS IT WRONG for a futures trader to buy for his own account at the same time he sells for a customer

There is a big difference between a traffic manager and a logistics manager. Unfortunately f

KEY HOUSE DEMOCRATS are trying to send a message to actors in the ongoing saga of developing country

THE U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE says it is willing to handle import information in a multiplicity of electr

On May 16, 1989, federal bankruptcy judge Howard C. Buschman III of New York concluded two and a hal

The Socialist International's 100th anniversary congress in Stockholm starting Tuesday will be the s

When I was growing up, anti-communism pervaded small town Southern life. People in the 1950s and the

CLEANER AIR has come a step closer to reality with President Bush's proposal to reauthorize the Clea

Last November in Algiers, Algeria, Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat declared

HUNGARY CELEBRATES a milestone today. Thirty-one years after former Prime Minister Imre Nagy was han

Last November the Treasury named both South Korea and Taiwan as countries that manipulate their curr

IT'S CALLED "DEREGULATION," but that label doesn't reveal what's inside the domestic maritime reform

The recent rejoining of separate shipping and transport divisions at the United Nations Economic and

The dictionaries say a Chinese puzzle is "intricate" and "complicated," words that certainly fit the

Wall Street was atwitter with talk of easy money last week. The Federal Reserve allowed the Federal

Negotiators from the office of the U.S. Trade Representative spent the last several weeks in talks t

CUSTOMS SERVICE USER FEES understandably have become a source of irritation to importers, who annual

Discouraged by recent developments? Think the world is rapidly going to hell in a hand basket? Like

FINALLY, THE ISSUE of airline competition is getting serious attention in Washington. By warning Ame

GOVERNOR RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON thinks that independence for Puerto Rico is impractical and that sta

Often profoundly serious, even ominous, threats are leveled at the domestic U.S. merchant marine by

By the end of this week, Margaret Thatcher should have a clearer idea of just how badly the governme

MAJORITY AT HEARING FAVOR RICO REFORMAfter reading the article on the Senate Judiciary Commi

AFTER YEARS OF THREATS, the Shipbuilders Council of America has filed its long-awaited complaint see

WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, the tough reach for gimmicks. That is once more the case on Capitol Hill,

''A revolution is under way in Western Europe - one that may change the political and economic lands

The United States Information Agency, one of our vital foreign information or propaganda agencies, i

UNDER PRESSURE FROM CAPITOL HILL, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has promised a recommenda

CONGRESS ONCE AGAIN is unlikely to approve a mandatory drug testing bill covering airline pilots, tr

CHANGE WAY OF PRICING AUTO INSURANCEC. Richard Peterson, president of the National Associati

BY SELLING OUT to Blackstone Capital Partners, a New York investment group, CNW Corp. has avoided th

The 1990s loom as a period of particular challenge for electric utilities. By the mid-1990s, more th

Fundamental issues of the South African conflict promise to dominate the country's general elections

THE WHITE HOUSE is balking at the prospect of paying $77 million to solve somebody else's problem, n

Since the Plaza Agreement of September 1985, the central banks of the major industrial countries hav

WITH CHINA ON THE BRINK of civil warfare, the British government's plan to transfer Hong Kong to Chi