Commentary

PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY, of a sort, seems to be coming to the Soviet Union. On Thursday, the Supreme

GEORGE BUSH TALKED TO ALAN GREENSPAN by phone the day after the Federal Reserve chairman's tough tes

Americans like the idea of space-age medicine, and they believe that, for the most part, human life

CAMPEAU, BRIDGESTONE, HOECHST, NESTLE. Foreign takeovers of U.S. companies have become almost a dail

This past June, four engineers from leading American manufacturing companies sat around a circular t

Touted as the keystone for a Latin American common market, the treaty of economic cooperation and in

LAST MONTH, CANADIAN VOTERS said they want freer trade with the United States. Next week, President

NADER WENT TOO FAR IN ATTACK ON INSURERSYour Nov. 15 coverage of California's Proposition 10

SPEED KILLS. THAT'S ESPECIALLY TRUE when an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer is involved. The Department

Sovietologists have been so preoccupied with recent Politburo personnel changes that they have faile

CARLOS SALINAS DE GORTARI, who takes office today as the president of Mexico, faces challenges even

Every now and then, a story comes along that deserves more attention than it gets from the better-kn

ALLOWING TRADE TO BE THE HANDMAIDEN of foreign policy cost President Reagan dearly. Downplaying trad

CENSUS BUREAU'S INTEGRITY DEFENDEDI waited all this time (hoping to cool down) before writin

Hopefully George Bush was able to enjoy his Thanksgiving holiday at Kennebunkport, Maine. Come the t

The network television news has become the favorite punching bag of those who lose out in the court

Day after day over the past two months, millions of Japanese have been patiently keeping up with the

MONDAY'S RISE IN THE PRIME RATE to 10.5 percent, the highest rate in three- and-one-half years, shou

Britain's ports feel badly let down by the politicians. While port managers say they are doi

POINTS ON TRADE BAR DESERVE EXPANSIONI am glad to be called a crocodile and even often wrong

Nearly two years after the European Community adopted a common maritime policy, it is still not clea

INTEREST ON DEBT IS DEDUCTIBLE from corporate income tax. Dividends on equity are not. That differen

THE GRAPEVINE SAYS Farrell Lines Inc.'s president, Richard Parks, has the inside track to be maritim

REFORM OF THE SYSTEM for procuring ocean transportation of military cargoes may be one of those issu

From his perch beneath the cedars on the University of British Columbia's sprawling campus, James Br

The movement toward closer integration of the European Community in 1992 is a source of constant hea

The Bush administration must feel blessed. Never - at least in recent memory - has an incoming admin

THE SWEEPING VICTORY of Canada's Progressive Conservative Party in Monday's parliamentary election s

George Bush hardly had time to catch his breath last week when he was faced with his first serious p

FOREIGN COMPANIES ARE FLOCKING to the United States - where their subsidiaries earn substantially le

Life is changing in China, but not always for the better. When I visited China last month, I

During the 1780s, Field Marshal Grigori Potemkin gave Catherine the Great a tour of shiny, prosperou

CALIFORNIA VOTERS' ANGRY APPROVAL of a massive rollback of car insurance rates should finally make c

DESPITE ALL THE CRITICISM, this month's election wasn't marked by much more negativism than can usua

An agreement on agriculture is crucial to the success of the current trade negotiations in the Gener

US TRADE POLICIES LACKING DIRECTIONYour editorial Half Measures (Oct. 31) states, For every

Richard A. Stuckey has a shorthand way of predicting recessions in the United States. He keeps an ey

A GROUP OF SHIPPERS, truckers and consumer advocates, which met earlier this month to plan a 1989 le

The United States is about to emerge from the Reagan era, which has turned this country into the wor

ELECTIONS HAVE BEEN FEW and far between in the 41 years since Pakistan became an independent nation.