Commentary

AT LONG LAST, Congress has finished work on an oil spill bill establishing prevention measures, prep

With little notice, Secretary of State James Baker last week took his second small step toward a pol

VIGOROUS PRICE NEGOTIATION between buyers and sellers reflects the free market at its best. That's a

If the 140,000 Teamsters who work for United Parcel Service Inc. strike later this month, as the uni

Many years ago, Thales of Miletus, a Greek philosopher, was confronted with the following query: "I

CUBAN PRESIDENT FIDEL CASTRO is at it again. Beset with the thousands of disaffected citizen

''The age of nationalism, of state rivalries, of destructive arms races between neighbors is over,"

As the song says, looks like "A bad moon rising." It appears the economic night, long predic

WASHINGTON CAN SMELL BLOOD in the thrift scandals. The membership of the president's son on the boar

TALK ABOUT CLEARING AND SETTLEMENT and the eyes of even the most avid investment banker will glaze o

WORLD SUGAR MARKET ISN'T WHAT IT SEEMSYour July 18 editorial "The Sugar Tax" betrays a basic

THERE WON'T BE ANY HANGING for Capt. Joseph Hazelwood, the man who was supposed to be at the helm of

ARE RHINO HORNS BEING SOLD ILLICITLY?In your July 23 edition under the World Trade Center Ne

THE FELLOW BEHIND THE TREE, as former Sen. Russell Long was fond of noting, is the one everybody wan

Dulles Airport seems to be breaking ground in several ways. Public and private officials Jul

NEGOTIATIONS OVER A BILL purported to strengthen civil rights have broken down over three little wo

After President Francois Mitterand met last month with several African heads of state, the French go

President Bush's acknowledgment that new tax revenue is needed to cope with fiscal reality may signa

Major Japanese corporations are moving cautiously in expanding their trading and business ties with

If this is July, it must be forecasting season. The White House, the Congressional Budget Office and

SUBSIDIES BEGET SUBSIDIES: There is no way government can assist some individuals without doing har

SOUTH KOREA'S MARCH TO DEMOCRACY hasn't been an easy one. The resignation of the 79 opposition membe

AMERICA'S PRODUCTIVE FARMERS have an advantage in many things. Shipping eggs across the Pacific is n

There is Helmut Kohl smiling once again. His pudginess is evident in the clear double chin that bre

INACCURACIES CITED ON HIGH-SPEED RAILOrdinarily, I would ignore derogatory articles such as

The House of Representatives recently passed a laudable proposal to extend to manufacturing joint ve

THE QUESTION IS NOT WHETHER, but when to lift the U.S. economic embargo against Vietnam. After 15 ye

GAMBLING NORMALLY IS NOT RECOMMENDED as a corporate strategy. But the slot machine at major airports

Within the next few weeks, the House is likely to approve further restrictions on the granting of mo

For most of us, growing older isn't an experience we notice. From one day to the next, we feel no m

PROPOSALS BY AMERICANS TO SAVE Latin America from itself go back two centuries. All of them have end

The Bush administration is reported to be considering a tax on the sale of securities as a way to re

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S crop insurance program may be headed toward a well- deserved end. T

FOR THE THIRD TIME in five years, the Senate has bowed to the textile barons and approved a highly

For many decades, the United States was the world's biggest creditor. It was only during the 1980s,

The article, "Fine Print Threatens Exports," by Gilbert E. Dwyer, published on this page July 19, mi

There is something fishy about U.S. claims in the Structural Impediments Initiative talks that its

I really would like to see photographs of deepest space some day from the Hubble space telescope. Wh

Picture this: The federal government learns that several of America's most powerful economic rivals

THE LONG ARM of the Internal Revenue Service may reach as far as Tokyo, Bonn and London in a new dri