Commentary

Among the latest of the startling revelations coming out of Eastern Europe is the admission by Prime

TAKE A CUP AND GET IN LINE. Thanks to the Department of Transportation, mandatory random drug testin

1990 promises to be a tough year for Republicans in Washington, but a good time for Wall Street. If

The foreign ministers of 18 West European countries today will launch negotiations to create a comm

''This will be the best Christmas ever," writes our friend. "Freedom for our nation, freedom for eac

COMMANDING THE SAVINGS RATE to rise is about as useful as commanding the sun to stand still. Neither

CAROL BOYD HALLET, the new commissioner of the U.S. Customs Service, has a rebuilding job ahead of

DEGRADABLE PLASTICS NOT THE ONLY SOLUTIONI was interested in the editorial ("Bag Job," Dec.

President Bush's capital gains tax cut has been taken off the table for now, but it will be back - a

The skunk population was breeding so rapidly around some of the New Hampshire fishing lakes that ang

The big Mexican debt relief deal is turning out to be significantly differentfrom the packag

IF YOU CAN'T MEET YOUR OWN standards, perhaps they're too tight. That seems to be the logic

FREER TRADE WITH EASTERN EUROPE means business opportunities. But exploiting those opportunities wil

Even environmentally conscious Americans don't spend much time worrying about banana waste. That may

Arguably the biggest single obstacle to the successful implementation of economic reform inthe Sovie

IN HER FIRST YEAR in office, U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills has settled for a series of tacti

WHEN THEY SENT TROOPS to massacre protesters in Tiananmen Square last June, China's leaders were bet

At Malta, President Bush finally put forward a key element of his package demonstrating strong U.S.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO FORTRESS EUROPE? Only yesterday, the prospect that the European Community's 12

WITH "FIRM ASSURANCES that those returning would not be punished," the British government Tuesday fl

When I heard that Jiri Dienstbier would be Czechoslovakia's new foreign minister, I laughed at the i

Herb called our office one evening to say he had an idea for my next column. That is a subje

MALPRACTICE HEADLINE DAMPENS EUPHORIAJournal of Commerce readers who rely on skimming headli

CRITICIZING THE 45-YEAR-OLD system that regulates international aviation is easy. But no one has yet

THE RECENTLY NAMED HEAD of Panama's journalist's union, Baltazar Aizpurua, has spoken out against th

A back-room brawl in banking threatens to split the nation's commercial banks. At the worst, the dis

Because the deficit will not go away, critics like the U.S. General Accounting Office have begun to

Not all that long ago, when the dollar was still almighty, the most widely noted tourists traveling

PUSH CONSERVATION, NOT OIL PRODUCTIONThe Journal of Commerce erred when it observed that ann

Whether Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher likes it or not, Britain is increasingly becoming a part of

AS CHANGE SWEEPS the communist world, from East Germany to Vietnam, one nation has remained aloof. G

For the Mexican work force, 1990 began this month when the government announced the extension of the

OCEAN SHIPS SERVING U.S. Great Lakes ports can't avoid doing business with Canada. The Canadian Coas

A Hindu saint reportedly told a story a couple of thousand years ago that I think has someanalogy to

The U.S. international trade and payments deficits will again decline ''modestly" in 1990, say Feder

President Gorbachev's rise to power in the Soviet Union has dramatically altered politicalperception

THE EUPHORIC TIDAL WAVE of political reform sweeping the Soviet Union has blinded some Westerners to

They talk about the "image" problem here, with weary resentment. It is such an old, old story.

On Dec. 17th, 82 million Brazilian voters will choose a president between two candidates: Fernando C

LET IT NEVER BE SAID that journalists can't move with the times. A week after the unexpected