Commentary

The Maritime Administration is facing applications for over $1.5 billion in federal loan guarantees

NO INCREASE IN DEVASTATING STORMSAs you reported recently, Vice President Al Gore ha

The announcement Tuesday that two of Japan's biggest banks, the Bank of Tokyo and Mitsubishi Bank, p

The Mexican peso devaluation has had enormous consequences in a country whose government, business a

AFTER THREE WRETCHED MONTHS, Mexico is showing early signs of economic improvement. Not that Mexico'

THE PORT AUTHORITY of New York and New Jersey is about to take a serious look at a worthwhile idea:

CANADA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION are progressing nicely in resolving their month- long fishing dispute

AMTRAK is heading for a financial cliff. While America's national passenger rail network has always

The Clinton administration has committed the United States to expanding the North American free trad

THE CASE AGAINST SHIP DEREGULATIONThe National Industrial Transportation League, enc

When the consumer movement emerged in the early part of this century, its leaders saw their role pri

U.S. POLICY TOWARD CUBA has long been out of date. It may soon be out of control. A dangerous bill n

Hold a $20 bill up to the light and you'll see, over on the left-hand side, a little strip, a "secur

Republican control of Congress and growing concerns over professional plaintiffs offer legislators t

Financial markets rallied strongly last week. Traders apparently were inspired by three key ideas. F

Voters sent Congress a clear message in the last election: Reduce regulation and spend less time, en

The European Union faces something akin to civil war as it decides whether to proceed toward a full-

CONGRESS has made a first, halting move to bring telecommunications regulation into the information

LAST WEEK'S Washington-Tokyo deal to ease restrictions on foreign direct investment in Japanshould h

WHO NEEDS THE FMC, ANYWAY?This is in response to James Marceda's March 7 letter to t

It's time to start paying attention to what's stirring in the Indian Ocean. Now that the Pac

Some congressional observers wonder why Rep. Bud Shuster, R-Pa., chairman of the House Transportatio

The governor of the Bank of England was informed on Saturday that Barings, one of the City'soldest a

FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY, San Francisco's bustling seaport helped make it one of the world's great ci

CANADA has called a halt to strikes and lockouts that have paralyzed its rail system and threatened

EUROPE'S cultural protectionists have struck again, persuading the EuropeanCommission to tig

The vision of true regional peace in the Middle East grows more distant by the day in most Arab coun

In its first three months, the 104th Congress has taken no action to renew the ''fast track" authori

Major league baseball's owners and players are making a last-ditch attempt to settle their differenc

IF THE RICH NATIONS run the new World Trade Organization like they ran the search for its first lead

THE HUE AND CRY OVER PROPOSED CUTSYour Jan. 18 article entitled "DOT Distances Itsel

We've got an awful lot of unhappy people out there. Take E. Martin Duggan, director of the S

AGRICULTURE SECRETARY nominee Dan Glickman is hardly a barn-burner when it comes to moving American

Japan is back in America's sights. Washington's favorite trade target had moved off the front pages

Money is tight and may get tighter. The New York Times says that four of the seven members of the Fe

UKRAINE, cast adrift when the Soviet Union died, is slowly regaining its bearings. Spurred by a new

AIR FRANCE, France's money-losing national airline, faces a chicken-and-egg problem. When it is even

On Feb. 26, after months of hard negotiations and billion-dollar threats of retaliation and counter-

The devil arrives in a baseball cap, or sometimes a fisherman's sweater, or on occasion a business s

The British pound has remained effectively on the sidelines during the upheavals in the foreign exch