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Shipboard routine, including discipline, study, improvised recreation and humor, made confinement in

What a difference a year makes. This time last year, socialized medicine was on a roll. Hillary Clin

Tragic images from Rwanda, Zaire, Sudan and other countries mired in civil strife make it seem as if

When you hit someone over the head long enough and hard enough, two things can happen: The victim ei

THE FRACTIOUS FAMILY known as the European Union has just concluded one of its periodic gatherings t

WASHINGTON AND TOKYO are famous for their 11th hour trade deals, and Wednesday's auto feud was a typ

Pocketbook Patriot or Protectionist? Stephen Lande, one-time U.S. trade negotiator now inter

CAPITALIZING ON US INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIPI would like to share my views on Sen. Chris

Future historians may well look back at today, June 29, 1995 - the day that the American President L

CHINA is working hard to join the World Trade Organization in Geneva, but it is neglecting a trade p

For all the media circus about the federal budget, Washington is not likely to restore the nation's

The first anti-dumping law - a law imposing duties on imports priced below the price in their home m

LOOK FOR U.S. AUTO SALES in Japan to rise sharply over the next few years - but not because of anyth

As a heavyweight contender stepped forward Monday to challenge John Major's leadership, what seemed

Before the end of the year, commuters traveling State Route 91 from Riverside County through Orange

It's their first European Union summit, but the newcomers - Austria, Sweden and Finland - already ar

KEEPING A STRONG US-FLAG PRESENCEI read with great interest Admiral Albert Herberger

EVEN WITH MEXICO'S financial problems, Nafta clearly has been beneficial to its three North American

THE 55-MPH NATIONAL SPEED LIMIT, which many motorists routinely ignore, may soon be scrapped. The Se

FEDERAL ROBBERY OF HIGHWAY FUNDSYour May 31 editorial, "Transport and the Budget" (P

The Clinton administration, seeking to make positive news at this week's sub- summit meeting in Mosc

As Congress revamps telecommunications law for the 21st century, the air is full of fine talk about

CHINA has tried several times in recent years to streamline its money-losing public companies, witho

THE GLOBAL telecommunications web grew tighter Thursday with Deutsche Telekom's announcement that it

SHIPOWNERS and the Clinton administration are playing a game of hot potato with stowaways. Neither s

If any proof is needed that OPEC, the once-feared Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, is

Question: When is a global trade liberalization deal not a liberalization deal? Answer: When

CHALK ONE UP for democracy in Chile. Chile's military, which coexists uneasily with the nati

THE REBIRTH of U.S. railroading has been one of the great business success stories of the last decad

SAVE VITAL COMMERCE DEPT. PROGRAMSYour May 24 editorial, "Re-engineering Commerce,"

The recent intervention by the United States and other central banks in the foreign exchange markets

The political reaction to President Clinton's alternative proposal last week for balancing the feder

KEEP THE ALASKA OIL EXPORT BANYour June 9 editorial, "The Alaska Oil Flap" (Page 10A

FIRST AUTOS, now aviation. The Clinton administration Monday threatened sanctions against Japanese a

The financial community should focus on the power struggle at the Federal Reserve over whether and w

The U.S. airline industry this month will proudly carry the 10 billionth passenger in commercial avi

IN BETWEEN FIGHTS over Bosnia and Chechnya, the leaders at the Halifax economic summit actually spen

The wires connecting Baby Boomer brains to reality have never been very securely fastened. More evid

The ill-conceived proposal by Rep. Dick Chrysler (R-Mich.) to eliminate the Commerce Department is b

The West may grumble about its relationship with Russia but it should at least take heart that Russi