Commentary

CAN A COUNTRY BE UNFAIR? By the end of the month, U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills and

Perhaps more than any of the other terrible disasters that have afflicted Britain over the past coup

SHOULD THERE BE SONG IN THE SUBWAY? That has joined the list of pressing political questions in New

REFINANCING MEXICO'S $105 BILLION foreign debt will not be the last epic task in President Carlos Sa

RAIL LABOR MUST KEEP RIGHT TO STRIKEOn April 7, this headline appeared in The Journal of Com

The tankers are too big. The crews are too small.The Coast Guard was too lax.The oil

''The (Soviet) economy is a mess," Mikhail S. Gorbachev said three years ago. ''In 1969 in Stavropol

EXPORT NOW PROGRAM SHOULD BE RENEWEDThe trade statistics are out for the month of February a

ONE VERY ATTRACTIVE ASPECT of the evolving unified European Community market, targeted for 1992, is

LEGISLATION TO COMBAT DRUGS in the railroad industry has again been introduced in both houses of Con

U.S. TRADE REPRESENTATIVE Carla Hills will raise a double-barrelled shotgun this month. The

THE REPORT ISSUED LAST week by the Delors Committee proposing and outlining the formation of a Europ

During the past decade, trade policy has emerged as one of the meanest sports in Washington.

MCCARRAN ACT ALLOWS INSURANCE CHALLENGESI found Harold Skipper's article, ("Parochial Insura

For the first-time visitor, preconceived notions of Japanese efficiency disappear within moments of

The budget agreement between the White House and Congress earlier this month reminded me of one type

The burst of record-size corporate takeovers in the fall of last year, including especially the $25

DON'T CHANGE FUTURES REGULATIONA recent article by the president of the Securities Industry

SCORCHING HEAT AND A PUNISHING DROUGHT sorely tested the nation's electric power system last summer.

To a town long on hot air but short on new ideas Detroit industrialist Lee Iacocca and Japanese corp

The Senate last week approved sweeping legislation to pump more than $150 billion into ailing saving

CAPITALISTS SURE HAVE some strange notions about capitalism. One of the strangest is that a company

Two gentlemen are making the rounds of the Pacific this week - Vice President Dan Quayle and Richard

JAPAN'S GOVERNMENT, PARALYZED since last summer by an ever-widening stock scandal, will be paralyzed

ENERGY CONSERVATION IS OUT OF FASHION, and the Bush administration rightly wants to bring it back. B

Few Europeans can tell you what the European Currency Unit looks like. But in the future, the Europe

CONTINUE DEVELOPING RESOURCES IN ALASKAYour March 29 editorial, "No Repeat Performance," exa

The recent arrest in Guadalajara of capo Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo provides Mexican diplomats here

SCRATCH ONE COUNTRY off the list of troubled foreign debtors: the Socialist Republic of Romania is n

The apparent suicide of 1960s political activist Abbie Hoffman by swallowing a huge dose of barbitur

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY chief William Reilly showed some independence of mind last week when

It has been 10 years since the first call of a vessel from China at a U.S. port. The arrival of the

TRADE, NOT AID, has become the rallying cry in much of the developing world. But the United States'

DESPITE THE PRESS OF BUSINESS, members of Congress can create some amazing diversions. A recent exam

The latest twist in the Soviet Union's diplomatic posture toward Latin America is its offer not to e

With Cabinet-level support from Housing Secretary Jack Kemp, mayors are being urged to evict from pu

WITH UNANTICIPATED HASTE, a special committee of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange has recommended swe

CHINA OPENING DOORS TO CHRISTIANITYEric Hotung's article, "Religion and Business in China" (

PREDATORY PRICING CASES are hard to win. When Kelco Disposal Inc., a Vermont trash hauler, proved th

During a recent trip to Vienna, I returned to my room at the Imperial Hotel after a hectic day of bu