Commentary

One of the most positive aspects of Africa's current economic crisis - in 1986 gross domestic produc

The media ought to meditate on the motto inscribed on the front of theNational Archives: "The past i

DAVID GOLDFARB, THE RUSSIAN GENETICIST, in the United States less than a month, has already experien

FILIPINOS LIKE DEFENSE MINISTER Juan Ponce Enrile who are upset with the policies and administrative

Iranian and Iraqi air attacks against neutral vessels in the Persian Gulf strongly suggest that the

Last week's autumn statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson, with its surprise ann

Leon H. Sullivan, the Baptist preacher from Philadelphia who developed widely recognized standards f

FLORIDA TOURISM FOLKS unfortunately have dumped their "If You've Got It Bad" advertising campaign fo

SEN. NANCY L. KASSEBAUM, R-Kan., is best known these days as one of the senators who bucked the admi

The treasurer for a major Northern California manufacturing company was interpreting the company's l

THE SURPRISING SCOPE of the Democratic victory in last week's Senate races has raised many questions

For high-octane gall in proclaiming its ethical purity, the scientific community has long been the r

AS MERGERS AND CONSOLIDATIONS proliferate among the U.S. airlines, travelers are beginning to see wi

THE WORD OUT OF WASHINGTON IS that President Reagan and the Republican Party may have lost control o

A decade of political uprisings and an incursion by U.S. troops nearly three years ago left the smal

In a previous article, I presented a case for a Federal insolvency fund for the insurance industry,

Poor Harry Schlaudeman, the U.S. ambassador to Brazil. He can't indulge in a round of golf without b

A FEW DAYS AGO - too few - we said we'd go out on a limb and forecast continued Republican control

ANTHONY J. TOZZOLI, president of the New York Shipping Association, is not one to look a challenge

FIFTEEN MAIL CARRIERS in Viborg, Denmark, have needed medical treatment for dog bites so far this ye

Japan scooped the other advanced democracies in October by putting on what many here regard as the m

THEY USED TO SAY that man would never go to the moon, because at the speed of the fastest racehorse,

A scientific research and training institute deploying remote-sensing space technology for the rescu

State insurance commissioners recently testified before a subcommittee of the House Banking Committe

WITH FUR TRADERS paddling their canoes to the sound of bagpipes, George Simpson made his maritime tr

Differing View Given On 'Discrepancies'In your editorial of Oct. 20, "Marad Ms. Speaks," you

The central question facing those studying tort reform and the insurance industry is how we move to

Seventeen years ago, Takako Doi entered the lower house of the Japanese Parliament as a member of t

A reporter should never pretend to be an expert on a country after a one-week visit, especially when

In drafting the New York Advisory Commission report on liability insurance, a central objective was

THE LACKLUSTER CONGRESSIONAL AND GUBERNATORIAL campaigns (for the most part) should end up in non-de

The jury on Big Bang is still out, at least as far as arguably the most important group of all is co

''I SOMETIMES FEEL that some American administration officials don't take a realistic attitude towar

NOW THAT NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT is becoming plausible, military analysts are saying we can't afford it

USUALLY WE PUT RESPONSES to editorials in our Letters to the Editor box. But out of sense of fairne

CONTROL OF THE SENATE, the big prize in tomorrow's election package, will hinge on the Democrats' ab

Like most people in the world these days, I have been thinking a lot aboutMikhail S. Gorbach

Next week, with the congressional, state and local elections, is a good time to remember that the vo

IN THE NORMAL COURSE of contract bargaining between labor and management, a union's negotiators may

WHEN IS A SMEAR CAMPAIGN not a smear campaign? That's an important question for the voters o