Commentary

KEEP MARITIMEDEREGULATION ALIVESince when has the simple matter of bringing together a buyer

As marine blockades go, last weekend's anti-U.S. protest by Canadian fishermen, which ended Monday e

A CLEAR THREAT FROMMONOPOLISTIC RAILROADSYour July 9 story, ''Ports see threat in remarks by

The news coming out of Africa isn't very good these days. In fact, with a few exceptions, it's downr

So it's official. The European Union has decided it will invite five former Eastern bloc countries t

The mutual recognition agreements recently initialed between the United States and the European Unio

The president and the Congress have one last chance this year to agree on fast-track legislation for

Congress holds its semiannual monetary policy circus, called the Humphrey-Hawkins hearings, this wee

Renewed attention to Africa - notably at the recent Denver summit and other high-level conferences,

The hot international aviation issue this summer is whether the United States will agree to negotiat

A steady drop in gold prices over the past dozen years is raising questions about whether it's time

Australia's central bank recently sold 167 metric tons of gold - two-thirds of its official gold hol

France's new Socialist government is agonizing over how much and how fast to privatize publicly owne

I kicked the habit a year ago.Most people give up smoking because of the rising cost of ciga

President Clinton is pushing ahead on signing a U.N. sponsored global-warming treaty that would pena

Freight rates may be at rock-bottom levels because of the huge number of new containerships now bein

In a possible preview of the fall debate on ''fast track'' trade authority, U.S. Trade Representativ

Europe's misguided threat to block Boeing's merger with McDonnell-Douglas has set the stage for a na

This is the kind of summer that tries journalists' ink-stained souls.Mouths were set for a s

On this, the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, there can be no question of whether the United S

The Teamsters union is making a goat of itself in California.Oakland-based Mills College, wh

After arriving home from ceremonies transferring Hong Kong back to China, Chinese PresidentJiang Zem

Amtrak's fatal flaw:government monopolyThis is in response to the July 14 opinion article ('

The international labor movement accused the China-backed Hong Kong government on Friday of tramplin

The U.S. Conference of Mayors at its recent annual meeting in San Francisco adopted a resolution cal

International Business Machines Corp. and Silvio Berlusconi's Fininvest SpA media group said Friday

Washington would be faced with a difficult legal brief in the World Trade Organization if it decided

Business is not the only arena in which Japanese and Western ways of doing things clash. Western new

The balanced-budget deal recently agreed to by the White House and the Republican leadership all but

In the last two years, more than 20,000 business alliances have been formed worldwide, and about 75

Somebody threw the stealth switch again. For a brief period in April and May, the bill to amend the

The old-fashioned world of Protection and Indemnity clubs, which insure their shipowner members on a

Eduard Shevardnadze, who this week began his first official visit to Washington as Georgia's preside

The nation's capital is hardly known as a hotbed of humility and introspection, so it was a surprise

Aviation has become the latest bugbear in U.S.-Japan trade, and the dispute is approaching a critica

The European Union is gearing up for a long debate over admitting new members from Central and Easte

The development of renewable energy resources is important to the economicand national secur

It's likened to the American Wild West of the 1800s and called the world's ''last frontier.'' It har

Every year Congress doles out more than $60 billion of taxpayer handouts to corporateAmerica. For ye

Shool's out for summer, and for hundreds of thousands of graduating high school students across the