Commentary

The Rocky Road Of Rail MergersYour editorial "No Rock Island II" (Dec. 30) brings back a flo

THE RAPID GROWTH of air travel has put a strain on the capacity of the entire air transportation sys

If the year gone by proved anything to Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, it was that taking bo

THE POLITICAL DEBATE over defense policy has long been among the most sterile in Washington. What de

OUT IN THE FARM BELT, despair is turning to optimism. Rumor has it that the farm crisis may be over.

The major steel producers are seeking an extension of the voluntary quotas on steel imports, which a

Foreign Sales Corp. Idea Needs SellingI am writing to comment on an article related to share

TAIWANESE PRESIDENT Chiang Ching-kuo, who died Wednesday at the age of 77, proved to be an unexpecte

Twenty years ago an enterprising French magazine editor wrote a best selling book about internationa

Your Dec. 23 editorial addresses an issue of grave concern to the Shipbuilders Council of America, t

The last week or so may have been the Democratic candidates' best in the 1988 presidential campaign

IF RIP VAN WINKLE were to awaken in 1988, he'd hardly recognize the railroad industry. Rail's once-s

A NASTY DOGFIGHT is about to begin over what may be the most complex trade dispute of the decade. Th

Well, we've done it. Despite all our good intentions, we have foolishly tiptoed into 1988. Not only

For the past 30 years U.S. and other foreign governments have pressed the Japanese to fully open the

Too much is being made of the federal budget deficit. It's not that the deficit is desirable

The U.S. trade deficit has come to be viewed as the problem that will not go away. In 1986 the defic

SEVENTEEN YEARS AFTER crashing into the Antarctic ice cap, a C-130 Hercules cargo plane has taken to

ITS UNIQUE PLACE in the international economy has allowed the United States to move almost painlessl

Pope-Gorbachev Comparison BlastedAs a Roman Catholic, I feel compelled to ask that you publi

Britain is a land of opportunity for fast-food restaurants, television suppliers, wine and coffee pr

THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION Dec. 31 had a chance to vote on a fundamental issue: Is the truck

AS EVERYONE LEARNED in high school civics class, congressional conference committees take bills appr

As Americans continue to wring their hands over budget and trade deficits, they have neglected anoth

SOVIET LEADER Mikhail Gorbachev's plans for restructuring the Russian economy could lead to serious

Expect people of Chinese origin to be very aggressive - and successful - in business in 1988. And if

Every generation looks back with nostalgia, even romanticism, to some particular earlier decade, usu

WHEN THE FINANCIAL MARKETS took ill on Oct. 19, London's Economist hastily constructed a barometer t

EVER SINCE WALL STREET'S stock markets collapsed on Oct. 19 and 20, economists have been busy churni

Clearing the Air On S. African MiningFrom this distance, we in the South African mining indu

The dramatic drop of the dollar against other major Western currencies has sparked many pronouncemen

This city becomes something of a ghost town between congressional sessions. The lawmakers and most o

Eight years after Ronald Reagan first proposed a North American free trade area in his presidential

JAPAN HAS HARVESTED much well-deserved criticism for its mercantilist attitude toward trade, its des

IN SECRET MEETINGS over the past year, bank regulators from the leading industrial nations have craf

As every capitalist knows, competition from hungry up-and-comers often putspressure on large

TAIWAN'S REGULATIONS governing foreign shipping lines have long been a sore point for U.S. ocean car

There's a mean, arbitrary, high-handed country out there. Let's call it X. It ignores a find

The U.S. Treasury and the Morgan Bank came galloping through the pass just before the New Year, pin

IN THE WAKE of the well-publicized security breach created through export violations by Japan's Tosh