Commentary

REMEMBER WHEN, more than two years ago, sponsors of the Omnibus Trade Act and the Reagan administrat

SOUTH KOREA IS POISED to become one of the great economic success stories of the 1990s, but it is al

Now that the Marxist-Leninist economies have failed in practice, the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary,

The deteriorating international position of many U.S. industries in the past two decades has raised

In the days just prior to and after the German invasion of Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, there was a flur

THE PURCHASE OF MCA Inc. by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. of Japan touched a sensitive xenophob

The Uruguay Round of trade talks under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade has come to an imp

LAW DOESN'T BENEFIT PORT OF LAKE CHARLESYour article headlined "Port of Lake Charles Benefit

IF YOU SPENT TIME in a congested airport over the holidays, take heart - help may be on the way. The

For too many years, the ground rules for competition between and within the Democratic and Republica

"Keiretsu" is today a fighting word in trade negotiations between the United States and Japan. To th

The state of the nation is grim at the midpoint of the Bush administration. The country is on the br

PAN AM CORP.'s decision Tuesday to file for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the ba

RECESSION AND LAYOFFS, unfortunately, go hand in hand. As more companies are forced to make tough de

A generation ago there were two coffee shops in Constitution Square, Zavourites and Zaharatous, to w

EACH DAY BRINGS MORE BAD NEWS for the nation's ailing banking system. The latest shock waves hit Sun

BASE AUTO INSURANCE ON MILES DRIVENYour report, "Higher Gasoline Prices Won't Cut Crash Clai

A friend recently called me from the newest country in the world - Namibia. Formerly a South African

That warm holiday spirit dies fast at American Trucking Associations. Barely a week into the new yea

There are two principal forces behind the drive for limiting congressional terms that President Bush

Japan has been the focus of considerable negative attention during the Iraq- Kuwait crisis because o

1990 WAS A BAD YEAR for free trade, and the outlook isn't much brighter for 1991. The unpleasant alt

Americans have a love affair with bigness. The big car and big home have long been symbols of the na

It was a dark and gloomy January day in the nation's capital. The man with the white beard and the f

The following is an open letter to Max Frankel, executive editor of The New York Times: The

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION is trying to tiptoe gracefully out of a tight corner. President Bush had off

IT IS A TESTAMENT to our concern for the environment that no one seriously doubts the need to reduce

The Middle East crisis, higher world oil prices, the collapse of Eastern Europe and the onset of a U

THERE'S NO SHORTAGE TO LIMIT SCRUBBERSMany articles have appeared recently in your paper, in

This year has begun with more big uncertainties than the law should allow. For starters, the

BANKRUPTCIES ARE NOTHING NEW in the trucking industry. But the demise of former industry giant P-I-

AMERICANS WHO REACH OUT and touch someone with an international phone call also may be supporting th

Last weekend, the Commerce Department released a 2.8-centimeter thick volume called U.S. Industrial

It took the loss of more than a million Americans' jobs, but the Federal Reserve System finally figu

The November meeting between President Bush and President Carlos Salinas de Gortari of Mexico added

AN ESTIMATED 30 MILLION AMERICANS took trips of 100 miles or more in their cars over the Christmas a

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV IS NOT the only leader struggling to keep his country united in the face of obstin

When sparks fly in Washington, Japan often takes the heat. But while temperatures rise over the late

AFTER A DECADE OF VIGOROUS price competition, the trucking industry is facing the unwelcome prospect

The confrontational tone of many analysts as to what happened - or didn't happen - in the recent ro