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...midst of one of Britain's cruelest winters, the Board of Trade last week issued some sorry news: the foreign trade gap worsened in January. The report was doubly disappointing because Britain had expected to improve upon the strong performance that it recorded in December, when exports hit an all-time monthly peak and the trade gap narrowed to $224 million. But January's exports plunged and imports were scarcely reduced by the Labor government's 15% surcharge on most foreign purchases. The gap grew to $272 million...
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Hugh Gaitskell's sudden illness and death were fate's cruelest blow to a nation plagued by difficulties in economics, defense and diplomacy. His quiet, persistent reasonableness rescued the Labor party from the chaos of a unilateralist position on disarmament and a total commitment to nationalization. His stature made the possibility of a Labor government seem palatable to many conservatives who saw the Tories collapsing in muddled confusion...
Says Sherri Finkbine: "It would be the cruelest thing in the world to let my baby be born with only a 50-50 chance of being normal. And I am concerned about our other children. How would it affect them? Some people think that what I want to do is wrong. If it would make them happy, we would be glad to start again next month and try to have a normal baby...
...carpeting of the rain forest, so dense that only needles of sunlight ever filter through to the dank jungle floor, the incessant droning whine of insects, and the voracious, slimy leeches, the size of amputated little fingers, that have to be burned off the skin. In New Guinea, the cruelest headhunter is still Nature...