Commentary

A FEW DAYS AGO - too few - we said we'd go out on a limb and forecast continued Republican control

ANTHONY J. TOZZOLI, president of the New York Shipping Association, is not one to look a challenge

Japan scooped the other advanced democracies in October by putting on what many here regard as the m

THEY USED TO SAY that man would never go to the moon, because at the speed of the fastest racehorse,

FIFTEEN MAIL CARRIERS in Viborg, Denmark, have needed medical treatment for dog bites so far this ye

A scientific research and training institute deploying remote-sensing space technology for the rescu

State insurance commissioners recently testified before a subcommittee of the House Banking Committe

WITH FUR TRADERS paddling their canoes to the sound of bagpipes, George Simpson made his maritime tr

Differing View Given On 'Discrepancies'In your editorial of Oct. 20, "Marad Ms. Speaks," you

The central question facing those studying tort reform and the insurance industry is how we move to

Seventeen years ago, Takako Doi entered the lower house of the Japanese Parliament as a member of t

A reporter should never pretend to be an expert on a country after a one-week visit, especially when

THE LACKLUSTER CONGRESSIONAL AND GUBERNATORIAL campaigns (for the most part) should end up in non-de

In drafting the New York Advisory Commission report on liability insurance, a central objective was

The jury on Big Bang is still out, at least as far as arguably the most important group of all is co

''I SOMETIMES FEEL that some American administration officials don't take a realistic attitude towar

NOW THAT NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT is becoming plausible, military analysts are saying we can't afford it

USUALLY WE PUT RESPONSES to editorials in our Letters to the Editor box. But out of sense of fairne

Like most people in the world these days, I have been thinking a lot aboutMikhail S. Gorbach

CONTROL OF THE SENATE, the big prize in tomorrow's election package, will hinge on the Democrats' ab

WHEN IS A SMEAR CAMPAIGN not a smear campaign? That's an important question for the voters o

IN THE NORMAL COURSE of contract bargaining between labor and management, a union's negotiators may

Next week, with the congressional, state and local elections, is a good time to remember that the vo

The current procession of East European visitors to China and China's better relations with the Sovi

One of the early beneficiaries of the campaign against apartheid in South Africa was the Canadian Ma

THOMAS W. GLEASON, the 85-year-old president of the International Longshoremen's Association, has c

IT TOOK 10 YEARS, but all the parties involved with the ports and with waterway transportation are t

The African Development Bank Group (AFDB), the continent's largest financing institution, is in the

Maryland will focus prominently in next week's congressional elections, in particular as far as U.S.

There's no telling how many pending national grievances in need of redress are due to earlier redres

Trade Bill Article Deserves a RerunUntil I read "Passing Trade Bill Makes Sense," the OPED a

On Oct. 22 the U.S. Justice Department announced its plan to implement the recommendations of the Po

THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION is 20 years old this month. Alan Boyd, the first secretary of trans

For many years Finland was able to dodge the bullet by aiming our less than 1 percent of the world's

THERE ARE VARIOUS DOUBLE AND TRIPLE witching hours in a year, occasions when large institutions with

Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usual

During the last few years, the idea that low rates of taxation encourage prosperity has come back in

"Spend, spend, spend, urge the banks. "Spend, spend, spend urge the credit card companies. "Spend, s

AFTER THE WAVE OF TERRORIST BOMBING in the streets of Paris in early September, the French governmen

THE U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE is proceeding relentlessly toward its goal of completely automating its ope