Commentary

DON'T SAY U.S. FARMERS aren't ingenious. Faced with the Reagan administration's determination to hol

Arms Control Needed For Free Farm TradeThe special report "Crisis in Farm Trade," (JofC, Jan

Preference cargo is today vitally important to the U.S. Merchant Marine. In 1985, Military Sealift C

WE MUST DEMAND MORE OF OURSELVES and our children, President Reagan told the nation in his State of

A LEADING MARITIME FIGURE the other day addressed the issue of the change occuring in the shipping

ECONOMISTS' FORECASTS have gotten systematically worse over the years, right? Not at all, says Vict

The annals of self-injurious fanaticism have now been enriched by an expert account of the Pentagon'

Britain's shipowners and port operators can be excused for feeling slightly paranoid after being eng

Can a nation call itself a superpower if it does not have a merchant marine? The United States seems

Half the walls in Thomas B. Crowley's spacious office on the 48th floor of 101 California St. are co

DON'T DO AS I DO, do as I say. The United States often has lectured its European trading partners an

BATTLES LINES are being drawn once again over taxing imported oil to raise income and help lift a de

THE MILLION-MEMBER ARMY of newspaper carriers is changing, the American Newspaper Publishers Associa

What is this recent reform jazz all about? Can the Soviet Union catch up with the United States?

There is little doubt that the U.S. trade deficit is now the country's preeminent economic concern.<

Spurred by the need to generate revenue on the federal level to fund budget deficits, worker adjustm

ALONGSIDE MOST TRANSPORTATION DISPUTES, the battle on the San Francisco waterfront is a horse of a d

Events over the past few months have prompted many Western journalists and businessmen to take a de

The Reagan administration, now that the 1986 congressional elections are history, has decided to mak

WHEN IS A TAX INCREASE not a tax increase? When, as everyone knows, it is a revenue enhancement. Tim

AMERICAN LABOR UNIONS haven't been having an easy time. Membership is declining. In industry after i

NINE YEARS AGO, U.S. energy service companies sold $35 million in oil and gas equipment to the Sovie

Much is being said about the levels of public and private debt. Some of the talk is in technical lan

Germany and Japan have failed to pursue more expansionary economic policies for two reasons.

After years of hydrocarbon-fueled growth, during which this Central African state of 10 million inha

WHAT A WONDERFUL STORY. According to an article in American Heritage magazine, Winston Churchill dro

When word first leaked out that Kakuei Tanaka, 68, had refused to see ruling party Secretary Genera

Progress on political and economic reforms in China is likely to be frozen until the Communist Party

After six years of advocating free trade, the great policy surprise of 1987 may be an embracing of t

WILL THE HIGHWAY BILL falter again this year, as it did last year, over the issue of the 55 mph spee

''THE MALTESE FALCON," with Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor, is the latest old movie to be subjected

The rise of industrial robots is irresistible and irreversible. They are getting better and cheaper.

LOST AMID THE COMMOTION about the plunging dollar and the U.S.-European Community trade scuffle is t

I have been warned that the part of London in which I live is in danger of becoming, in terms of der

Figures about the international trade deficit, especially the deficit with Japan, are in the newspap

IN "THE GUNS OF AUGUST," Barbara Tuchman tells how in 1914 a minor political incident in an small Ba

In Dick Lawrence's excellent article (JofC, Jan. 12) highlighting the crucial role of the United St

The last two years have been the worst ever for the international shipping fraternity , and there ar

THERE'S GOOD NEWS on the trade front, right? Well, perhaps. The figures forDecember put the

If you call Van Doorn Ooms in Washington, a recorded voice comes on the line and repeats a couple of