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Iranian and Iraqi air attacks against neutral vessels in the Persian Gulf strongly suggest that the

Last week's autumn statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson, with its surprise ann

THE SURPRISING SCOPE of the Democratic victory in last week's Senate races has raised many questions

For high-octane gall in proclaiming its ethical purity, the scientific community has long been the r

AS MERGERS AND CONSOLIDATIONS proliferate among the U.S. airlines, travelers are beginning to see wi

The treasurer for a major Northern California manufacturing company was interpreting the company's l

THE WORD OUT OF WASHINGTON IS that President Reagan and the Republican Party may have lost control o

Poor Harry Schlaudeman, the U.S. ambassador to Brazil. He can't indulge in a round of golf without b

A decade of political uprisings and an incursion by U.S. troops nearly three years ago left the smal

In a previous article, I presented a case for a Federal insolvency fund for the insurance industry,

ANTHONY J. TOZZOLI, president of the New York Shipping Association, is not one to look a challenge

A FEW DAYS AGO - too few - we said we'd go out on a limb and forecast continued Republican control

Japan scooped the other advanced democracies in October by putting on what many here regard as the m

THEY USED TO SAY that man would never go to the moon, because at the speed of the fastest racehorse,

FIFTEEN MAIL CARRIERS in Viborg, Denmark, have needed medical treatment for dog bites so far this ye

A scientific research and training institute deploying remote-sensing space technology for the rescu

State insurance commissioners recently testified before a subcommittee of the House Banking Committe

The central question facing those studying tort reform and the insurance industry is how we move to

Seventeen years ago, Takako Doi entered the lower house of the Japanese Parliament as a member of t

Differing View Given On 'Discrepancies'In your editorial of Oct. 20, "Marad Ms. Speaks," you

WITH FUR TRADERS paddling their canoes to the sound of bagpipes, George Simpson made his maritime tr

A reporter should never pretend to be an expert on a country after a one-week visit, especially when

''I SOMETIMES FEEL that some American administration officials don't take a realistic attitude towar

In drafting the New York Advisory Commission report on liability insurance, a central objective was

The jury on Big Bang is still out, at least as far as arguably the most important group of all is co

THE LACKLUSTER CONGRESSIONAL AND GUBERNATORIAL campaigns (for the most part) should end up in non-de

Like most people in the world these days, I have been thinking a lot aboutMikhail S. Gorbach

NOW THAT NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT is becoming plausible, military analysts are saying we can't afford it

USUALLY WE PUT RESPONSES to editorials in our Letters to the Editor box. But out of sense of fairne

CONTROL OF THE SENATE, the big prize in tomorrow's election package, will hinge on the Democrats' ab

Next week, with the congressional, state and local elections, is a good time to remember that the vo

One of the early beneficiaries of the campaign against apartheid in South Africa was the Canadian Ma

The current procession of East European visitors to China and China's better relations with the Sovi

WHEN IS A SMEAR CAMPAIGN not a smear campaign? That's an important question for the voters o

IN THE NORMAL COURSE of contract bargaining between labor and management, a union's negotiators may

There's no telling how many pending national grievances in need of redress are due to earlier redres

IT TOOK 10 YEARS, but all the parties involved with the ports and with waterway transportation are t

The African Development Bank Group (AFDB), the continent's largest financing institution, is in the

THOMAS W. GLEASON, the 85-year-old president of the International Longshoremen's Association, has c

Maryland will focus prominently in next week's congressional elections, in particular as far as U.S.