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...majority are less than certain. Finally, Takeshita's own lease on party and government office comes due in October, and he wants to reclaim it for another two-year term. Should he fail to do so, the Recruit fiasco could be the reason. April may yet prove the cruelest month for Noboru Takeshita...
...Haiti's cruelest slums, scores of quasi-government thugs known as Tonton Macoutes, wearing telltale red armbands, stormed into a crowded Sunday Mass, attacking indiscriminately with knives, shooting wildly and torching the church. The toll of the rampage: 13 worshipers slain, more than 70 wounded and a gutted church building. But the apparent object of the attack, Father Jean- Bertrand Aristide, somehow managed to escape, as he had in five previous attempts on his life...
...start chanting "Aurelia" or "Elena" yet. If gymnastics is among the most beautiful of the summer sports, it is also among the cruelest. Titles come and go overnight, lost by the most negligible slips or breaks of form on an apparatus. In Rotterdam, Dobre surprised even her own teammates by capturing the all-around title, nudging aside co-defending World Champions Shushunova and Oksana Omelianchik of the Soviet Union, who placed second and fifth respectively. Silivas, who had emerged as the 1987 European champion just five months earlier, fell to third following bobbles on the uneven bars and balance beam...
December was the cruelest month in the Persian Gulf. It brought attacks by Iran and Iraq on at least 29 commercial ships, the highest recorded monthly number since the tanker war began. At the gulf's northern end, the seven-year- old war between the two Islamic rivals threatened to take a menacing turn as Tehran boasted of its ability to produce chemical weapons and a long-range missile. Vowed Iranian Prime Minister Mir Hussein Mousavi: "The government is committed to allocating its full potential to the war effort...
...Minister Shintaro Abe, one of three likely successors to Nakasone, abruptly canceled a visit to the U.S. planned for April. Abe explained that he was needed to campaign for the L.D.P. in the local elections. He did not have to add that, for Nakasone, April could well be the cruelest month -- and not a good time for ambitious politicians to be out of town...