Commentary

THE PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO have every right to decide their own political future. But when the House

WORDS NOT MEANT TO DESCRIBE SLATERI am deeply disappointed that an article in your Oct. 2 ed

Americans hot to do business with the Soviet Union or Eastern Europe should beware. The most crushin

Soviet support of the United Nations role in the Middle East has given new importance and influence

AMERICANS MAY SCOFF at the excuse European officials sometimes give for their reluctance to reduce s

DEREGULATION HAS YET TO make much of a mark in international aviation. While domestic carriers in th

Maybe this year U.S. physicians won't increase their incomes by 12.5 percent, as they did in 1989. T

AFTER MONTHS OF HESITATION, Britain has taken the monetary plunge. But its leap into Western Europe'

You may not have noticed it in all the tumult and the shouting over the federal budget, but Congress

Not in recent memory has a World Bank-International Monetary Fund meeting been as dogged by uncertai

Since 1947 there have been eight years when U.S. crude oil prices increased by more than 5 percent o

IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS mean labor restrictions: It would be impossible to enforce limits on the nu

The Persian Gulf crisis has catapulted the International Energy Agency, the Paris-based club of indu

EXCESSIVE PUNITIVE DAMAGE AWARDS do need to be reined in. But in its eagerness to prevent juries fro

REPORTS OF CORRUPTION and conflicts of interest in the U.S. government's food aid program have recei

The Bush administration has found out the hard way that the oil market doesn't necessarilyrespond to

As anti-Japanese rhetoric grows more strident in the United States, some conservatives here retort,

Mikhail Gorbachev is still the most influential player in Soviet politics. What he seems increasingl

CHASE MANHATTAN BANK cuts 5,000 jobs. Industrial Bank of Japan's high-flying stock loses two-thirds

Our sealift crisis is easily apparent to objective observers. This vulnerability has loomed since th

This may be the most ironic sign of the times in Europe since former dissident Vaclev Havel became p

The Washington Report column, "Crisis Spurs Mariner Reserve," which appeared on the Editorial/Opinio

AN ALABAMA COURT ORDERED Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. to pay more than $1 million toa woman def

The administration's proposal to reduce the capital gains tax rate was abandoned due to superficial

The big landowner, the story goes, had given one of his tenant farmers a bottle of sour mash bourbon

TRACK USE MONOPOLY HAS ALREADY ENDEDIt appears to me that Paul Nelson ("It's Time to Open Ra

HIS UNWISE PROMISE in the 1988 campaign - "No new taxes. Read my lips" - has haunted thefirst two ye

By any standards, the Sept. 12 summit of Indian political parties was unusual. There have be

JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER Toshiki Kaifu had a lot to answer for during his trip to the United States t

The U.S. economy, which almost stalled during the first half of 1990, has tumbled down the slippery

In all probability, this week will see the textile and apparel industries consigned to the ash heap

FOR THE FIRST TIME in 45 years, Europe has a major power at its center. Everyone can rejoice at the

HEALTH CONCERNS ARE FOREMOST at the United Nations World Summit on Children. The goals proclaimed du

THE UNPOPULARITY OF THE budget package worked out in Washington over the weekend is the best testimo

VAPORWARE OR NOT: YES, THE UN CARESI refer to your article "Vaporware or Not - Does the U.N.

More than 10 years after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries successfully wielded its

Gramm-Rudman-Hollings is hanging over the environmental presidency like the sword of Damocles. A Con

FINALLY, THE UNITED STATES is putting its Strategic Petroleum Reserve to the test. After weeks of he

We can weather an oil shortage. The more dangerous problem is that we're running low on brainpower.

Bush administration officials, prompted by the Persian Gulf crisis, are fleshing out plans for a mer