Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Like millions of other Americans, I was startled to learn that the U.S. Navy had undertaken to escor

China Has Moved Toward Free TradeYour recent article Taiwan on Collision Course with U.S., O

THE DECISIONS OF France and Britain to send minesweepers to the Persian Gulf indicate that cooperati

Shipping lines are increasingly concerned about people who sneak on board their vessels in order to

THE UNITED STATES has a problem in Central America. It may have to make peace. Ever since th

We will quiet every pocket of unrest in every corner of the globe with a company of marines or a fle

One of the most disconcerting of economic trends is the overwhelming success foreign producers have

The Gephardt amendment, presidential trade negotiating authority, import fees to finance worker retr

WITH A HANDFUL of well-publicized fines, the Occupational Safety and Health Administrationhas sudden

The Iran-Contra Scandal has treated the U.S. public to the rather fascinating principle ofplausible