Commentary

When I heard that Jiri Dienstbier would be Czechoslovakia's new foreign minister, I laughed at the i

Herb called our office one evening to say he had an idea for my next column. That is a subje

MALPRACTICE HEADLINE DAMPENS EUPHORIAJournal of Commerce readers who rely on skimming headli

A back-room brawl in banking threatens to split the nation's commercial banks. At the worst, the dis

CRITICIZING THE 45-YEAR-OLD system that regulates international aviation is easy. But no one has yet

THE RECENTLY NAMED HEAD of Panama's journalist's union, Baltazar Aizpurua, has spoken out against th

Because the deficit will not go away, critics like the U.S. General Accounting Office have begun to

Not all that long ago, when the dollar was still almighty, the most widely noted tourists traveling

AS CHANGE SWEEPS the communist world, from East Germany to Vietnam, one nation has remained aloof. G

OCEAN SHIPS SERVING U.S. Great Lakes ports can't avoid doing business with Canada. The Canadian Coas

Whether Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher likes it or not, Britain is increasingly becoming a part of

PUSH CONSERVATION, NOT OIL PRODUCTIONThe Journal of Commerce erred when it observed that ann

For the Mexican work force, 1990 began this month when the government announced the extension of the

THE EUPHORIC TIDAL WAVE of political reform sweeping the Soviet Union has blinded some Westerners to

The U.S. international trade and payments deficits will again decline ''modestly" in 1990, say Feder

President Gorbachev's rise to power in the Soviet Union has dramatically altered politicalperception

A Hindu saint reportedly told a story a couple of thousand years ago that I think has someanalogy to

They talk about the "image" problem here, with weary resentment. It is such an old, old story.

LET IT NEVER BE SAID that journalists can't move with the times. A week after the unexpected

THE MARK OF A GOOD ADMINISTRATION is that it deals not only with dramatic events like the Malta summ

On Dec. 17th, 82 million Brazilian voters will choose a president between two candidates: Fernando C

LUXURY RAIL STORY HAS REAL SIGNIFICANCEThe wire service report in the Nov. 15 Journal of Com

Japan's present expansionary period already has entered its 36th month. The U.S. business boom is e

WHEN IT'S BUSINESS AGAINST BUSINESS, contributor against contributor, official Washington knows the

The Malta summit meeting underscored a truth often demonstrated here: Politics can produce not only

SHIFT FROM PANAMA COULD HELP SEAFARERSWith the shift away from the Panamanian registry (Dec.

SCORE ONE MORE POINT for Manuel Antonia Noriega. Once again, the Panamanian dictator has goaded the

THE RESIGNATION MONDAY of M. Danny Wall, the top regulator of the nation's savings and loan institut

With one of the lowest standards of living in the Americas, land-locked Bolivia has long pinned hope

Wall Street worked itself into a Thanksgiving Day lather over Federal Reserve policy. The day before

We've just had the George and Misha show, somewhere off Malta. A few weeks ago, there was the Bob an

DEBT-FOR-NATURE SWAPS are among the more sensible, if not more widespread, methods for reducing the

MARITIME POSITION ON GATT DEFENDEDThe Journal of Commerce in one disdainful stroke ("A Plan

Although the Bush administration's rhetoric has been tougher sounding than that of its predecessor,

LAST SATURDAY'S ELECTION offered the government of Taiwan an opportunity to show the billion citizen

An East German driving across the border into West Germany to seek a new life and a better paying jo

THE OPENING of the Soviet Union's economy has done no favors for the coach of the Soviet national ba

U.S. education is being bashed by the Japanese government. And we Americans - self-flagellating maso

Dear Trade Minister: Now that your government has agreed to assume all of the obligations of

TO A PUBLIC THAT LOVES MIRACLES, degradable plastic bags are being touted as a painless way to reduc