Commentary

Alan Greenspan has hardly had time to find his way to the tennis courts at the Federal Reserve Board

'Who Needs a Fleet?' Took Brave StandI would like to congratulate The Journal of Commerce on

Not content with eating Big Macs, watching Dynasty and following U.S. football, Britain seems intent

WHEN SECRETARY OF STATE William Seward bought Alaska from Czar Alexander II in 1867 for two cents an

The loss of reinvestment tax deferral for U.S.-owned shipping, which resultedfrom some last

TO HEAR THE BIG defense contractors tell it, they don't expect anything when they hire retired gener

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION is still 15 months away, but the maritime unions have begun writing checks

AIDS, THE 20th CENTURY counterpart to ancient leprosy and the bubonic plague, is casting a deadly sh

TENNESSEE SEN. ALBERT GORE JR. gained some much-needed attention in the Aug. 23 Democraticdebate in

When the Senate returns from its summer recess, one of the first bills it will consider will be cata

At the turn of this century, China had a problem. Although it recognized the superiority of Western

COMMENT ON THE TIMES: The number of workers producing steel in the United States now is about the sa

Having adopted tax reforms that were widely deemed unpassble, will politics repeat with a national h

I was upset to read a letter to the editor from a representative of the Australian Meat and Livestoc

The USS Hidalgo was built during World War II for the Navy, but through a series of misadventures, n

THE STATE DEPARTMENT SHOULD GO back to Diplomacy 101. It needs to brush up on its facts. It also nee

IT'S INEVITABLE, we suppose, when under oath Marine colonels boast that they have lied to Congress a

Bland assurances from government officials don't dispel doubts as Argentina seeks exports for a nucl

Standard Form 189 requires a government worker to agree that he will not release to the public "info

Stock market participants waltzed in their own private paradise most of the time last week, obliviou

SEVERAL YEARS AGO, Judge Harold Ackerman in U.S. District Court, Newark, N.J., ruled that Local 560

At Oregon Inlet, at the northern tip of Hatteras Island, there are the remains of a fishing trawler

George S. Moore, son of a Burlington Railroad claims agent in Hannibal, Mo., came to Yale University

RICHARD PAGANES, president of Tubby's Sub Shops Inc., Fraser, Mich., and William J. Washawanny, pres

NO ONE LIKES to be reminded of his mistakes. Even more, he resents having his mistakes made public a

American and other Western trading strategists once took it as an item of faith: as Japan's economy

When Congress resumes work after the Labor Day recess, House and Senate conferees will turn their at

THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION'S recent emergency order changing the Los Angeles terminal contr

Your editorial of Aug. 10, "The Ostrich Complex," faults the health insurance industry for its "fail

Construction work has already begun in France. In England, machines will start boring through the ro

Ever since the ouster in January of Hu Yaobang as secretary of the Communist Party of China and the

M. DANNY WALL, the new chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, has revealed his thoughts on th

CRAZY AS IT SOUNDS, it sometimes seems that U.S. energy policy might be improved if the policy-maker

AMERICAN AIRLINES is beginning a new advertising campaign focusing on what the company calls its sup

The Ayatollah Khomeini is an enigma to the Western world. But his actions, and those of his follower

Last-Minute Trade Bill Gambit? WASHINGTON BUREAUHOW ABOUT THIS for a wild finish for this ye

Although commenting on international trade in shipping, your Aug. 12 editorial ''Protectionism in Sh

ONE WEEK, the United States government announces that America's monthly trade deficit for June reach

Agricultural trade represents less than 3 percent of total trade between the United States and Canad

THE FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD has taken a small but necessary step to deal with the continuing economic