Commentary

A few years ago, we asked the late German physicist and rocketry engineer Krafft Ehricke to outline

For years, Canada has imposed protectionist policies against U.S. authors,artists and other

Don't Judge a Ship By Year It Was BuiltI must correct the false impression of the U.S.-flag

There are some mightily frustrated politicians in France these days as French President Francois Mit

Despite the recent improvement in the monthly trade numbers, the United States will have to attract

THE RESULTS ON SUPER TUESDAY, next week's series of primary elections in 20 states, may have much to

Just as we look with horror at galley slavery or inhuman steerage accommodations of the past, our 2

FEW DIPLOMATIC ISSUES place the United States on trickier sands than the current unrest in the Repub

The hijinks in the Senate last week on the bill to control congressional campaign spending almost be

President Reagan last week unveiled an EXPORT NOW program to help excite businesses around the count

NOBODY LIKES noisy airports. But new pressures to put the lid on airport noise threaten to do grave

IT'S A TRUISM of economics that investors put their money where they think it will generate the grea

Inflation, most people know now, is easier to fall into than jump out of. This statement has

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan scored a personal triumph last week. In his maiden eff

Only six years ago what is now the National Freight Consortium, Europe's largest trucking group, was

Customs Itself Poses Brokers' Big ProblemI read with a great deal of interest the report by

Initially hailed as a major breakthrough in managing the debt crisis, the debt relief plan devised b

WHAT STARTED OUT as a minor change in procedure has landed the Federal Maritime Commission in a lega

U.S. COMPANIES MAY BE LOSING as much as $61 billion a year because our good trading buddies are pira

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY James Burnley's initial round of congressional appearances on the DOT budge

I'm uneasy about Pat Robertson's campaign for the presidency. I think I am not alone. Mr. Ro

The two primary entities of our maritime industry are the commercial fleet and the shipyards. The de

WHEN IT COMES to praying in public, the United States is a leading member of the Church of Free Trad

IF YOU ASK a wrong question, you're likely to get a wrong answer. That axiom fits nothing mo

ELSEWHERE ON THIS PAGE, Transportation Secretary James Burnley takes issue with a recent editorial q

The economic depression plaguing world commerce and trade for the past seven years has had particula

Inaccuracies Marred Airbus ArticleA recent article on Airbus (Jan. 25) contains a number of

There is little, if any, support in Australia for a free trade agreement with the United States.

WITH THE RELEASE last week of President Reagan's fiscal 1989 budget, we have another achievement fro

IT'S BEEN FOUR LONG YEARS since the United States first voiced its objections to Brazil's nationalis

Since the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates was established after World War II, the role

The Public Broadcasting System in December and January aired the The Politics of Food, which touched

Let's start with a small confession. A few days before the New Hampshire primary, a friend asked me

OVER THE VIGOROUS objections of the Justice Department, Congress is about to pass a bill that repudi

President Reagan sent Congress his seventh and, for practical purposes, final budget last week. The

For an economy originally developed on the premise of a continually abundant labor supply, it is som

WHY IS THE ECONOMY slowing down? The answer, claims the Economic Report of the President, is to be f

Did you know that President Reagan signed the free trade deal with Canada on Jan. 2 without dressing

IT MAY BE BOUND IN BABY BLUE, but the Economic Report of the President, the annual volume in which t

Soviet Human Rights: Arbitrariness PrevailsIf Thomas H. Naylor's Jan. 28 column Unlink Emigr