Commentary

THE TIME IS LONG PAST for the United States to grant full trading rights to the Soviet Union. Presid

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT approved a 1991 budget for the European Community this week that calls for s

One of the consequences of a possible collapse of world trade talks is an escalating war over patent

Now that the budget debate is over, it is clear that Congress and the administration believe America

HAITI'S PRESIDENTIAL BALLOT on Sunday will mark the end of that nation's tortuous march toward freel

Twenty-five years ago Walter Lippmann wrote that Latin Americans were unable to achieve sound econom

I'm getting a little tired of Saddam Hussein's poaching on what is, at least partly, my turf.

A flood of South Korean automobile parts and pharmaceuticals falsely labeled by Japanese companies

WASHINGTON IS CAUTIOUSLY moving toward lifting its 15-year-old trade embargo against Vietnam. But Ha

Piracy of copyrights, patents and other intellectual property costs the U.S. economy tens of billion

A COMPANY AND ITS WORKERS are in the best position to determine fair wages and working conditions. C

The world trade ministers' meeting in Brussels collapsed last week because the European Community re

According to the Labor Department, the United States lost 1.1 million jobs over the past five months

ARMAND HAMMER LIVED to see the Cold War end, which is fortunate since no one in the last 40 years se

CRITICS OF BIG BUSINESS consider "corporate philanthropy" a contradiction in terms. Businesses, they

Eishiro Saito is the chairman of Japan's largest business organization, but during the last four and

POLITICIANS WHO RECEIVE 75 percent of the popular vote are quick to claim a mandate from the people.

The international maritime community is praying for a long, hard winter in the United States.

PRESIDENT BUSH'S GOODWILL tour of Latin America drew needed attention to a region that has endured a

During the past two years the Bush administration has put itself into a straitjacket with regard to

US NEEDS TO DEBATE MEXICAN TRADE PACTBen Tonra is right to suggest that more attention shoul

TRADE NEGOTIATORS WHO are not serious about negotiating are doomed to failure. That's the best way t

The genetic-engineering wizardry that tricks cows into producing more milk is under attack as potent

The International Monetary Fund is close to completing its study of the Soviet economy - a basic ste

WHETHER OR NOT WAR BREAKS OUT, the United States will be in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia for months, even

The invasion of Kuwait by Iraq in early August, and the doubling of oil prices, has returned attenti

THE RUSSIAN REPUBLIC'S emergency meeting on land reform earlier this week yielded watered-down resul

ONCE UPON A TIME there were two beggars. They found a loaf of bread and began to argue over it. They

POLICY MUST SUPPORT US MERCHANT MARINEI refer to your editorial "Skinner's Choice" (Nov. 19)

Our puritanism always seems to get the better of our environmentalism. At least that's the way I rea

Tucked away in the deficit reduction bill signed by President Bush on Nov. 5 was a very important pr

ARGENT MARINE IS ALL AMERICANYour editorial (Nov. 21) criticizing the Marad sale of two laid

ELECTRICITY IS ONE OF THE NATION'S most reliable and inexpensive commodities. But if the federal reg

POLISH CITIZENS ARE GETTING a taste of democracy at its ugliest. This Sunday, they will vote in runo

Bush administration policy on food assistance for the Soviet Union may be marching to the beat of a

Given the perceived recession and the growing instability of conditions in the Persian Gulf, it is l

Life, someone once said, is unfair. Others narrow the proposition and proclaim that some tra

THE PROPOSED MERGER of Southern California Edison Co. and its neighbor, San Diego Gas and Electric

New economic data has confirmed that the economy is in a free fall. As the recession deepens, the fr

Reforming the international anti-dumping code, which sets standards for determining if importers are