Commentary

Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, has said that "a battle of monumental proportion is brewing over Alaska'

ONCE AGAIN, BRAZIL'S President Jose Sarney has a plan. Prices have been frozen. Automatic wage index

It has been over two years since the dollar began its long decline from peak levels, yet the long-aw

THE AIRLINE BATTLE for market share through fare cuts seems to be over, at least for the time being.

If you are reading this among a batch of photo-copied news clips put together by your public relatio

THE BIG TRADE BILL the Senate is due to take up this week contains a few sleepers. One provi

A private organization recruits and equips a guerrilla force in the United States for an expedition

RAIDERS, JUNK BONDS AND GREENMAIL have America agog. In direct response to widespread public alarm o

On Wednesday, the Reagan administration transmitted to the Congress proposed legislation that will m

Debate on the Senate floor next week will offer a key to the prospects of a major trade law during t

The 1987 Omnibus Trade Bill has earned the moniker of the Japanese Trade Bill. But the version passe

PERHAPS IT WAS A BAD DAY at the office, or maybe just a slip of the tongue. Whatever the case, Richa

The way a colleague tells it, severe winter weather had left his subdivision in the Virginia suburbs

The Venice summit meeting turned out, as was widely predicted, to be a non- event, at least in the e

OZONE IS IN. Amid fears that widely used chemicals are rapidly destroying the ozone layer that shiel

It isn't nice to call it jawboning, so all the parties participating in last week's Venice summit re

The White House laid down a heavy smoke screen in advance of the economic summit meeting in Venice d

A COMMITTEE OF THE House of Representatives has cleared a bill that would sharply curtail use of the

Rep. Steven Solarz, D-N.Y., is casting his net ever farther into troubled waters. It is another depa

THE FUEL CRISIS of the 1970s has been blamed for a loss of tempers and jobs. Now, Harvard University

IN 1981, THE FEDERAL Aviation Administration received an opportunity almost any employer would envy.

Cost Not a Factor In Bill's RejectionUnder the headline, "VA Benefits Opposed for Wartime Sa

THIS WAS THE YEAR for Democrats to show that they have the stuff to govern. But if their attempts to

Margaret Thatcher's historic hat-trick election victory is likely to have a deep impact on British p

The U.S. government is finally standing tall in the world, insisting that our trading partners open

"Washington is a city full of yellow dog Democrats," the statuesque blonde said, and then emphasized

THE AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION'S leadership is more optimistic about its prospects to purchase Alle

Who could have predicted that the seven leaders at this just-completed summit would have spent nearl

IT'S ALWAYS BEEN the case in this country that when things aren't going well, we blame somebody else

THE WIDELY DERIDED Venice Economic Summit proved full of surprises. The meeting may well turn out to

For the 12 member countries of the European Community, the creation of a genuine common market has

Citibank's wise decision to increase its reserves against loans to developing countries by $3 billi

THE BATTLE OF ALLEGIS is over. The board of the transportation company, best known to the public as

The unchallenged flight of a 19-year-old West German, Mathias Rust, from Helsinki to Red Square in M

NO LABOR ORGANIZATION IN AMERICA has a more checkered history that the International Brotherhood of

IN THE WORDS OF FAWN HALL, Sometimes you just have to go above the written law. Ms. Hall, to

Who says California wines don't measure up? As foreign investors commit unprecedented sums to Califo

Every year, pundits predict NATO's imminent demise. Every year, they have been wrong. Despite econom

This city has had its first taste of a summer that will be remembered in part for the red-eyed cigar

With under four months to go before negotiators must meet a deadline, the U.S.-Canada free trade tal