Commentary

There's one respect, perhaps the only one, in which Russia's President Boris Yeltsin will outweigh h

It was, perhaps, inevitable that the 25th anniversary of the bungled Watergate break-in that doomed

An important reason for the surprisingly vibrant economic activity over the past year is the unexpec

Chalk up another victory for talented wordsmiths at a political summit.Faced with a dangerou

In a centrally planned system, banking and finance play a decidely minor role. Since the production

Recently, The Des Moines Register ran a praiseful column on Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born wheat bree

Although the Clinton administration insists there is no connection between aid to Russia and Boris Y

HARBOR FEE REFUNDS ARELARGER THAN YOU THINKExporters seeking refunds of harbor maintenance f

Israel and Jordan have reached another water agreement, putting to rest a lingering controversy aris

Preparations for next week's Earth Summit Two in New York, marking the anniversary of the celebrated

The Federal Trade Commission has become the target of unfair criticism for trying to bring its produ

The annual summit season is upon us again. It will culminate this weekend in Denver where the leader

Helmut Kohl's dreams could dissolve into a nightmare by tonight.The German chancellor's life

After the ValuJet accident in 1996, the airline industry developed a plan to prevent similar tragedi

Faced with worsening lead, carbon monoxide and other air pollutants during the 1960s, the public rig

This is the moment of China. The 1980s may have belonged to Japan and the first half of the 1990s to

In a rare instance of global solidarity, nations of the world joined hands last week in Geneva for a

Professional life isn't quite what they told us it was at our college commencement. Hard work, persi

Leaders of eight Muslim nations met in Istanbul over the weekend to launch the ''Developing Eight''

The clock starts running today on a historic deal between CSX Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. to ac

President Clinton's order banning all new U.S. investment in Myanmar, formerly Burma, is working, ac

Without much fanfare, the administration last month made a decision that will save the Treasury at l

This week two major railroads, Norfolk Southern and CSX, will ask the Surface Transportation Board f

The long-running feud between film giants Eastman Kodak Co. and Fuji Color Film Inc. could come to a

The current U.S. policy toward Germany is troubling.The Clinton administration seems to beli

Poor Francois Mitterrand used to cut a forlorn figure at Group of 7 summits in the late 1980s and ea

I have here on my desk the latest in one-to-one Personal Communications Devices with innumerable imp

There is nothing like getting older to sharpen your focus on certain issues. As I age (I'm 57), I fi

The Russian government is on a borrowing binge that could lead to a financial and economic crisis of

The ''Insurance on the Internet'' column that appeared Thursday, June 5, on Page 8A, should have sta

The Republican tax package, unveiled this week with much fanfare, was billed as a comprehensive, ''c

The Grand Old Party appears institutionally incapable of sending a clear message on what it stands f

The anti-Cuba hard-liners in the U.S. Congress have struck again.Barely two months after the

So tiny Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern wants to be the third railroad serving the coal fields of Wyomin

HAVING THE COURAGETO DISAGREE WITH EMPLOYERWe are writing in support of Conrad Everhard for

''I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it s

Recent U.S. court rulings interpreting the Warsaw Convention on airline liability are good examples

The European Union has appealed a World Trade Organization ruling that its banana policy favoring Ca

Aquarter of a century after converting the U.S. Postal Service to an independent government agency,

Imagine this scenario: You log onto the Internet from your home in Novato, Calif., through a service