Commentary

LEASING NAVY TERMINALTO COSCO BENEFITS ALLI want to commend you for your March 18 editorial

The fun part of watching the legislative follies in Washington is to note the absurd guises various

Last month marked the 40th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, the agreement establishing the forerun

Canadians, beware! Unless immediate action is taken, Canada will become the 51st state of the Americ

Akey partner in India's wobbly coalition government is threatening to pull out unless Prime Minister

Farmers in the rich countries tend to take their transportation for granted. We're long past the day

Now that Japan's fiscal year is drawing to a close, we can look ahead for the next year with some op

The cry goes out, ''American workers can no longer compete with the world!'' The complaint is that t

As the new Congress and the executive branch get down to business, the time has come to restore mome

U.S. consumers will pay a price for their government's decision on Tuesday to cut imports of Europea

NO NEED TO CHANGEORIGIN LABELING RULESI am writing to set the record straight on claims by t

Foreign aid is not the most popular government program. As most taxpayers are aware, much of America

Doing business today often means going abroad. And going abroad always means encountering different

Government price fixing is never a pretty business. Under the guise of protecting the public, bureau

It takes a cloned sheep or the mystery of mad cow disease to put agricultural research on the front

With memories of the Uruguay Round's bitter agri- cultural trade disputes just starting to fade, tr

Let the annals of trade history record that the Clinton administration's opening pitch for an expand

The U.S. Congress is about to get a dose of its own medicine, as the Capitol Hill police vote whethe

Earlier this year, the impossible happened - or so it seemed. The chairman of a massive government-c

President Clinton says ''the era of big government is over,'' and his budget claims to be ''cutting

Britain's general election on May 1 should be a cinch for Prime Minister John Major. The economy is

Long-distance telephone competition officially arrives today in this sprawling capital. The new carr

Remember Clintoncare and its massive task force of 500 experts, all working in secret to overhaul th

Two Swiss chemical companies have agreed to pay $25 million in criminal fines and plead guilty to co

During the 104th Congress, the House ethics process tagged a number of prominent members, including

''Reform the United Nations'' has long been a rallying cry for those who think the world body is spe

The anti-China trade lobby, an eclectic mixture of conservatives, protectionists, labor unions and c

President Clinton's recently unveiled $50 billion education proposal is based on the now discredited

Boris Yeltsin changes Cabinet ministers like most people change socks. In pursuit of economic restru

WHY NOT SPEND HIGHWAYFUNDS ON AMTRAK?Rick Henderson's article entitled ''Tasty highway pork'

The European Union has announced it will pump $2.1 billion in subsidies into shipyards in Spain, Ger

A month ago, a group of senior administration executives came up with an idea: Why not stage a ''med

It's a long way from rural America to the markets of China, but that vast distance can be bridged by

As Chairman Alan Greenspan has been hinting for weeks, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates thi

Basta!Enough! Congress should rescind its requirement that the administration annually certi

BROKERS CAN DEAL WITHLAWYERS, NOT CONSULTANTSYour March 10 article, ''Provide and analyze in

The U.S. Treasury is about to repay nearly one-half of what it owes the World Bank's International D

The United States and the European Union are heading toward another showdown over access to each oth

According to most analysts, the strong U.S. dollar represents a clear and present danger to the grow

They're off! British Prime Minister John Major has visited the Queen at Buckingham Palace and receiv