Commentary

IS IT WRONG for a futures trader to buy for his own account at the same time he sells for a customer

Buried in the 1,000-page Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 is a provision which requires

In a cartoon of the Bonn-Moscow summit meeting last week, Soviet PresidentMikhail Gorbachev

On May 16, 1989, federal bankruptcy judge Howard C. Buschman III of New York concluded two and a hal

There is a big difference between a traffic manager and a logistics manager. Unfortunately f

KEY HOUSE DEMOCRATS are trying to send a message to actors in the ongoing saga of developing country

THE U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE says it is willing to handle import information in a multiplicity of electr

The Socialist International's 100th anniversary congress in Stockholm starting Tuesday will be the s

When I was growing up, anti-communism pervaded small town Southern life. People in the 1950s and the

CLEANER AIR has come a step closer to reality with President Bush's proposal to reauthorize the Clea

Last November in Algiers, Algeria, Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat declared

HUNGARY CELEBRATES a milestone today. Thirty-one years after former Prime Minister Imre Nagy was han

Last November the Treasury named both South Korea and Taiwan as countries that manipulate their curr

The dictionaries say a Chinese puzzle is "intricate" and "complicated," words that certainly fit the

The recent rejoining of separate shipping and transport divisions at the United Nations Economic and

IT'S CALLED "DEREGULATION," but that label doesn't reveal what's inside the domestic maritime reform

Wall Street was atwitter with talk of easy money last week. The Federal Reserve allowed the Federal

FINALLY, THE ISSUE of airline competition is getting serious attention in Washington. By warning Ame

CUSTOMS SERVICE USER FEES understandably have become a source of irritation to importers, who annual

Negotiators from the office of the U.S. Trade Representative spent the last several weeks in talks t

Discouraged by recent developments? Think the world is rapidly going to hell in a hand basket? Like

AFTER YEARS OF THREATS, the Shipbuilders Council of America has filed its long-awaited complaint see

GOVERNOR RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON thinks that independence for Puerto Rico is impractical and that sta

By the end of this week, Margaret Thatcher should have a clearer idea of just how badly the governme

MAJORITY AT HEARING FAVOR RICO REFORMAfter reading the article on the Senate Judiciary Commi

Often profoundly serious, even ominous, threats are leveled at the domestic U.S. merchant marine by

UNDER PRESSURE FROM CAPITOL HILL, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has promised a recommenda

WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, the tough reach for gimmicks. That is once more the case on Capitol Hill,

The United States Information Agency, one of our vital foreign information or propaganda agencies, i

CONGRESS ONCE AGAIN is unlikely to approve a mandatory drug testing bill covering airline pilots, tr

''A revolution is under way in Western Europe - one that may change the political and economic lands

THE WHITE HOUSE is balking at the prospect of paying $77 million to solve somebody else's problem, n

CHANGE WAY OF PRICING AUTO INSURANCEC. Richard Peterson, president of the National Associati

BY SELLING OUT to Blackstone Capital Partners, a New York investment group, CNW Corp. has avoided th

Fundamental issues of the South African conflict promise to dominate the country's general elections

The 1990s loom as a period of particular challenge for electric utilities. By the mid-1990s, more th

MARAD IS RIGHT ON FOOD SECURITY ACTA recent editorial ("Marad Skirts the Lakes," May 11), br

A GLOBAL BAN ON CHEMICAL WEAPONS is a humane goal in the search for world peace. Two initiatives und

WITH CHINA ON THE BRINK of civil warfare, the British government's plan to transfer Hong Kong to Chi

You can forget all that wishiwashiness about the best and the worst of times. To hear some congressm