Commentary

So what's wrong with having only three national passenger airlines? That question, and others like i

HOW LONG DOES THE ARM of the U.S. civil rights law reach? Is an American protected from discriminati

CONFUSION AND DENIALS followed reports Monday that the Taiwanese central bank quietly and systematic

After several years of writing about shippers - what they want, need and desire - I finally found ou

SOME CRITICS OF THE proposed U.S.-Mexico free-trade agreement have intimated that President Carlos S

S. KOREA CONTINUES TRADE LIBERALIZATIONYour Jan. 11 editorial, "South Korean Crisis," has pr

Is the recession getting deeper? Is unemployment rising? If you're counting on government statistics

EMOTIONS CHANGE QUICKLY during wartime. Minutes before the United States launched its nighttime assa

''I know where the line is, and I did not cross it." That's what Sen. Dennis DeConcini, D-Ar

PAN AM CORP.'S CHAPTER 11 FILING last week overshadowed an important aviation story that has been bu

The objective, according to the veteran military transportation specialist, is simple: Provide your

The road to monetary union for the European Community is strewn with pitfalls. Economic difficulties

The U.S. maritime industry is ill-prepared to combat the onslaught of terrorism that would accompany

WHEN THE SHOOTING STARTS in the Middle East, and there seems only the slightest chance now that it c

BEIJING'S SKETCHY EIGHTH five-year economic plan could be the blueprint for significant market-orien

''To err is human, but if the eraser wears out before the pencil, you better watch out." - Apocrypha

About mid-January, someone at the Ministry for International Trade and Industry in Tokyo looks at th

JAPAN'S BOX RULES NOT A CONSPIRACYMichael B. Smith's letter (Jan. 3) states that he is going

OIL SELLING AT $75 a barrel? Higher inflation? Tighter credit? A skyrocketing budget deficit? Consum

In Budapest, people wait in line for Levi jeans, not food. The market stalls are well-stocked with o

IT MAY NOT MATTER MUCH whether Mikhail Gorbachev actually ordered the crackdown in Lithuania over th

The broad efforts to privatize and reinvigorate former East German enterprises have met so much conf

ALL EYES ARE FOCUSED on the Persian Gulf as the Tuesday United Nations' deadline for an Iraqi withdr

The Department of Energy has been building an emergency response capability for crude oil and petrol

WHY WOULD A COMPANY abandon a natural gas well with plenty of reserves and then spend money to drill

Two of the more powerful Democrats on trade policy in Congress are weighing runs for the presidency

While rumors of the death of the world trade talks have been widely exaggerated, so too are expectat

Now that the Marxist-Leninist economies have failed in practice, the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary,

SOUTH KOREA IS POISED to become one of the great economic success stories of the 1990s, but it is al

The deteriorating international position of many U.S. industries in the past two decades has raised

It's too bad that Bill Seidman and Bob Clarke can't step in and seize the federal government - the b

REMEMBER WHEN, more than two years ago, sponsors of the Omnibus Trade Act and the Reagan administrat

In the days just prior to and after the German invasion of Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, there was a flur

The Uruguay Round of trade talks under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade has come to an imp

LAW DOESN'T BENEFIT PORT OF LAKE CHARLESYour article headlined "Port of Lake Charles Benefit

IF YOU SPENT TIME in a congested airport over the holidays, take heart - help may be on the way. The

THE PURCHASE OF MCA Inc. by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. of Japan touched a sensitive xenophob

For too many years, the ground rules for competition between and within the Democratic and Republica

RECESSION AND LAYOFFS, unfortunately, go hand in hand. As more companies are forced to make tough de

PAN AM CORP.'s decision Tuesday to file for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the ba