Commentary

SEALIFT CHIEF WANTS PROCUREMENT CHANGESAs a follow-up to your Publisher's Notebook (Oct. 5),

For years Japan has cultivated a postwar image of itself as a peace-loving society that had eradicat

KINGSTON, R.I., is not among the nation's busier transportation centers. But for Amtrak, the governm

THE FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD resists rules for managing the money supply with every ounce of its streng

Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas F. Brady is the very model of a modern Republican. In pub

Japan should have a tough retaliatory measure ready if the Bush administration invokes sanctions aga

It is bad enough that President Bush sits mute in the face of the Chinese government's savage repres

AN OIL SPILL LIABILITY bill pending in the House of Representatives would shield thetransportation a

When top airline industry executives like Ben Cosgrove of Boeing declare, ''Safety is No. 1," the re

The powerful Franco-German alliance that is shaping the economic and political contours of the Europ

THE GOVERNMENT'S ANTI-DRUG crusaders have been much more eager to arrest those who use drugs than to

Americans and Japanese are more similar than dissimilar. Both peoples are highly competitive. But bo

IN A FIT OF DEMOCRATIC VIRTUE, the House Aviation Subcommittee Thursday postponed legislating on air

Dr. George Abed, executive director of the Geneva-based Palestine Welfare Association, has proposed

With an eye to the next negotiations with Japan under the "Structural Impediments Initiative," U.S.

REFORESTING AMERICA is President Bush's latest campaign; he has taken to planting trees during visit

Due to a typographical error, the name of Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen, a consumer or

Industrialized nations rarely have been willing to squander their national institutions for politica

Electronics, they say, is breaking down the distinctions in the information business. Newspapers wan

It has the feel of a lottery. Thousands of people flee their homelands in Central America or the Car

HIGH ON OUR LIST of favorite propaganda tracts is Philip Morris Magazine, a glossy bimonthly designe

RARELY HAS A FINANCE MINISTER faced as formidable a task as that awaiting Leszek Balcerowitz.

As representatives of many nations left Washington following the World Bank/ International Monetary

On a wall in the reception area outside the office of the Federal MaritimeCommission chairma

UNFAIRNESS IS A HOT-BUTTON issue in Washington: Be it Japan's exclusion of foreign construction cont

ATTACKING CONSUMER GROUPS isn't a terribly constructive undertaking, but it has become an obsession

SLOCUM FUND RAISERS MUST EDUCATE DONORSI have read with interest and disappointment your art

On July 12, 1989, the General Accounting Office submitted a report to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, D-M

In 1974, Congress enacted a trade law that included an unprecedented provision. Called the J

M-Day is coming! A week from tomorrow will be the second anniversary of the meltdown in the stock ma

THERE WERE NO HAPPY RETURNS for Erich Honecker, general secretary of East Germany's Socialist Unity

A REVAMPED TAX CREDIT for research and development, now in the final stages of congressional approva

Undaunted, unrepentant and undiminished. That is Margaret Thatcher 10 years into her role as Britain

Relations between Nepal and India are at an impasse following the expiration of trade and transit tr

INSURANCE DISCOUNTS DON'T HELP DRIVERSThe Proposition 103 "good driver discount" was cited t

PATIENCE CAN BE a virtue. In few areas is it likely to be better rewarded than in U.S. relations wit

WHEN IT COMES TO POLITICS, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, plays with the best of them. You can bet you

JAPAN'S MANAGEMENT METHODS get all the attention, but the decisive techniques of Iraqi President Sad

FOR SHEER BIZARRENESS, few things in government can top the Interstate Commerce Commission.

As the European Community moves toward the completion of its internal market, there are important im