Commentary

ARMS FOR AFGHANISTAN and Pakistan's nuclear weapons program top the agenda this week as Pakistani Pr

SANTA FE CONFIDENT IT WILL WIN APPEALI read with great interest your May 25 editorial, "Defe

A leadership vacuum may be developing at the Export-Import Bank. Former Celanese Corp. chair

Americans may have inherited venerable philosophical, legal and political concepts from Great Britai

BACK FROM HIS triumphal tour of Europe, President Bush faces an urgent problem at home. While the pr

The historian's conundrum has been whether the times make the man or the man makes the times.

A NATIONAL RECYCLING PROGRAM may well be the next step in reducing the massive volume of solid waste

THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION'S indifference to antitrust concerns has been a major factor behind

LOST AMID THE ATTENTION given last week's declaration that Japan, India and Brazil are unfair tradin

Even before the dust settles, some significant things seem clear from the extraordinary events in Ch

PLYWOOD INDUSTRY GOALS CLARIFIEDI read with interest the article "US Plywood Producers Threa

If there is one word guaranteed to receive a hearty salute from the labor community, it is solidarit

FOR FOUR YEARS, Mikhail Gorbachev has occupied the center of the world stage. By presenting the Unit

THE DAYS OF EASY MONEY in Japan have come to a long-delayed end. With a risingdollar threate

This week's NATO agreement promises to transform much of the political landscape here and abroad, bu

GREAT LAKES OPINION WAS SOUNDLY BASEDThe letter from C.E. De Fries, president of the Marine

Item: On Jan. 1, 1989, the European Community, citing health risks, announced a ban on all beef impo

Although it ranks high on any list of the worst disasters anywhere in the United States, activities

When T. Boone Pickens Jr., the famed American corporate raider, recently announced his status as th

The U.S. dollar is in orbit. In the face of massive government intervention designed to hold it down

PUNISHMENT ALONE is a poor method of motivation. Every manager, and every parent, knows that turning

It is difficult to pick up a major newspaper these days without seeing an article on Europe 1992 - t

Earlier this month, a West German court sentenced a terrorist to life in prison. That court deserves

THE STEEL INDUSTRY, that perennial foe of imports, has finally offered an idea with merit. The U.S.

THE DECISION BY Interstate Commerce Commission Chairwoman Heather J. Gradison to abandon her quest f

''Two peoples could hardly be more different than the pragmatic, matter-of- fact, legally oriented,

TREASURY SECRETARY NICHOLAS BRADY'S debt relief plan has received a strong vote of support from the

SMOG IN THE CITIES has not diminished as quickly as the public or many in Congress would like. Since

The 1980s have witnessed a wholesale assault on restrictive banking regulations. Policy-makers have

Whatever order is eventually created out of the present chaos in China, it is already clear that the

The Voice of America has 60 million listeners in China. During the mass protests, when hundreds of t

The Trade Act of 1988 authorizes a broad range of discretionary protectionist measures that can be i

THE MOST PROFITABLE COAL SLURRY PIPELINE in U.S. history must surely be one that never got built. An

A different and very absorbing China syndrome became prevalent here in the past week, drawing attent

PRESIDENT CARLOS SALINAS DE GORTARI'S decision to open Mexico's airline industry to foreign investme

I'll always be grateful for the good advice I got on my first trip to Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 19

THE CRISIS IN NATO is a staple of politicians, generals and headline writers. Doubts about the North

The problem of the nation's uninsured has received much attention recently, and appropriately so. Th

Alan Greenspan is steadily tightening the noose he has drawn around the economy. The dour Federal Re

We're on the cusp of the moment of truth. Or is it a moment of hoax? U.S. Trade Representati