Commentary

On a Washington street corner recently, a polished Marine stood beside a tattered waif whoclutched a

U.S. MEMORIES was supposed to be a model of the future. Private electronics companies in the United

WAS IT A MOMENT OF MADNESS on the part of Amtrak Chairman W. Graham Claytor? Last week, in announcin

Due to technical problems, H. Erich Heinemann's weekly column on the economy does not appear today.

The economic disaster faced by hundreds of villages in France, Switzerland, Italy and Austria could

In Mexico, and elsewhere in Latin America, Dan Quayle is an unknown. Few are aware that he is the vi

THE LABOR MOVEMENT IS DOWN but definitely not out. Two long and painful strikes not only have shown

Benign neglect in Washington and billions in unauthorized loans from the Atlanta branch ofItaly's Ba

VISITORS ONCE AGAIN MAY STROLL through Tiananmen Square, but not much else appears to havechanged in

Is Yugoslavia still a communist country? In its constitutional and institutional aspects, it is, alt

Transport has replaced the weather as the main topic of chit-chat among metropolitan dwellers throug

''MOST OF OUR PROBLEMS in the image area are due to the extreme bad press we saw in the coverage of

Bit by bit, the government of South Africa is attempting to change the ways it traditionally has rel

IT'S DIFFICULT ENOUGH to figure out how to cut the federal government's budget deficit without menti

THE U.S. NAVY COULD USE A LITTLE HELP from the private sector when it comes to getting ships safely

So far, the idea of a sustained assistance program for redeveloping Eastern Europe involves mainly p

In recent decades, Japan has become an important source of major technological advances. As the West

TECHNOLOGY KEEPS AMERICA STRONG and making sure that we develop enough of it to keep the United Stat

ADMIRAL CLARIFIES FALCON TRANSACTIONFollowing up on an article ("Bureaucracy Obfuscates Falc

In the space of three weeks, the bravery and skill of 24,000 young Americans and a large portion of

THERE'S A GAME THAT THEY PLAY in the trucking industry. It goes like this: First, a bunch of

Tadao Sawaki, a Japanese bank executive, failed to notice two men carrying machine guns approaching

The U.S. economy is sliding down the slippery slope of recession. Total employment rosea scant 0.3 p

PITY POOR KARL MARX. One after another, the governments that ruled Eastern Europe in his name have a

The longer U.S. trade deficits have persisted, the more trade friction has grown. One ofthe issues c

A recent meeting between Israeli and American government economists in Washington concluded that in

To read the latest edition of "Britain 1990," the government's official guide for foreigners to the

A STRONG BILL TO COVER THE COST OF cleaning up oil spills stands on the verge of congressional passa

Last week marked the swearing in of a new president of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel, who was until a

The World Bank shortly may resume lending to China, but China won't soon get another prize it seeks

IN MATTERS OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE, perception often is as important as reality. For that rea

Costa Rica isn't a very big place. If you want to run for public office, you don't do it in a very b

IN THE FACE OF LEGAL UNCERTAINTY and political pressure, the U.S. Department of Transportation has d

What if Manuel Antonio Noriega were finally brought to justice in the United States? The invasion of

THE RETIREMENT OF NEARLY 1,500 New York dockworkers is good news for users of the nation'slargest co

FLAG IMPORT BAN HITS FREEDOM OF CHOICESome "patriotic" groups and legislators are proposing

A few years ago, "Genscherism" became an epithet as West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Gensc

A CLEARER WARNING has rarely been issued. But it appears that not even the sorry saga of New England

A PICTURE OF A STAGNANT ECONOMY is becoming clearer by the day. Each morning's paper brings news of

The upheaval in Eastern Europe that set history on a new course also has straightened out some kinks