Commentary

CAN COMMODITY TRADERS BE TAUGHT to behave ethically? The Chicago Mercantile Exchange soon will find

It wasn't only concerns about profits that led the trucking industry to ask government regulators la

I am feeling a little bit like Capt. Renault in the movie, "Casablanca." He was the French p

IN NEW JERSEY, A GREEK IMMIGRANT restaurant owner, facing claims that could run into millions, stand

IN CALIFORNIA, where from time to time everyone seems to be flying, they are talking about re-regula

IN MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL, the telephone company, USWest, is taking a technological leap backward to f

When Congress and the administration are casting about for ways to save the U.S. Merchant Marine, t

INSURERS NOT FORCED TO LIQUIDATE JUNKI think there is a misconception in your editorial on j

Mexico's quiet affair with North American free trade has been publicized before the formal engagemen

HARRY BRIDGES, the West Coast longshore leader who died March 30, left a legacy that will influence

The time is rapidly approaching for the United States to bite the bullet in the General Agreement on

Should the United States (oh yes, and Canada as well) start preparing for a world of trading blocs b

IN PERU, CHALK ONE UP for the anodyne candidate. Unknown until a month ago, Alberto Fujimori, the so

MAINTENANCE FEE IS UNCONSTITUTIONALI fully agree with Arthur L. Litman's article on the foll

Do not be misled by all the commotion and dramatic pronouncements that the German Democratic Republi

BIG SPENDERS, SMALL SAVERS. That's the dubious reputation Americans enjoy. In 1988, according to the

For generations London has ranked as Europe's leading financial center. That it will continue to do

THE PROBLEM: DOUBLE-DEALING by agents hired to arrange the shipment of U.S. food aid to poor countri

The "study," full of charts, tables and regression analyses, has become an essential part of every W

AFTER A DECENT STRETCH of negotiations and the appropriate saber rattling, the United States and Jap

Two of three disputes with Japan under Section 301 of the 1988 U.S. Omnibus Trade Act are settled. T

Members of Congress have an opportunity. This session they can fix a part of the tax code that neve

The crisis in American transportation and all its manifestations are well documented in the national

America's relationship with Third World nations has changed rapidly from one centered around regiona

THE WALLS OF FORTRESS EUROPE have been breached. A gaping hole was made by a most unlikely assailant

MEETING FOR THE SAKE of meeting is always a bad idea. But short of a sudden epidemic of diplomatic f

SEEKING TO CLARIFY DRAWBACK PROPOSALI am writing with respect to recent articles in The Jour

Senate farm leaders are trying to take an idea inspired by Hubert Humphrey in the 1950s - using Amer

UNRAVEL PATCHWORK OF TRUCK REGULATION"The $12 Billion Bargain" (Editorial, March 30) in supp

THERE ARE TIMES when silence is the best method of diplomacy. That should be the rule this Sunday, w

The next leader of Argentina may be a shadowy army colonel who admires German Nazism and who once se

CONGRESS IS FOND of passing laws that affect working conditions in the private sector. But there's o

When Captain Yoshiki Gunji was assigned to the 8,242-ton Mutsu, Japan's first and only nuclear-power

HOW CAN YOU REGULATE what you don't understand? That's the paradox that faces the Interstate Commerc

THE NEW MINIMUM WAGE RATE of $3.80 an hour won't mean much to most businesses. To attract labor thes

The economy is balanced on a knife edge between recession and expansion as the second quarter begins

President Bush's proposal to increase the harbor maintenance fee from 0.04 percent to 0.125 percent

TRANSPORT SECRETARY NEEDS GREEN LIGHTI read your editorial "Empty Policy" (March 15) with mo

On March 18, the 52nd anniversary of the nationalization of Mexican oil, Petroleos Mexicanos, Mexico

Every morning, foremen at the giant Volvo plant in Gothenburg have to puzzle out how to allocate wo