Commentary

'REALISTIC' REFORMS IN MARITIME POLICY?After reading "Realistic Maritime Reform" (Editorial,

It is commonly asserted that the combination of "expansionary" fiscal policy and restrictive monetar

THE WRECK OF THE EXXON VALDEZ on March 24 and the resultant fouling of Prince William Sound have gen

Well on its way to becoming the test country in the so-called Brady Plan for solving the internation

PRODDED BY AN IMPATIENT CONGRESS, the Bush administration is deciding whether to launch an ill-advis

US MARITIME INDUSTRY ITS OWN WORST ENEMYYour excellent editorial, "Realistic Maritime Reform

America is currently losing the war against drugs. According to William Bennet, President Bu

Tens of thousands of visitors, many from abroad, are swarming through Houston's Astrodome this week

The Federal Reserve System significantly tightened its grip on the economy over the past two months.

As Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita took off on a nine-day tour of Southeast Asia last weekend, he le

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

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

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

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

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

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 (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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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