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...importance of Canada's trade with Fidel Castro's Cuba is not so much the money as the principle of the thing-and Canada and the U.S. incline to differ sharply on the principles at stake. When the U.S. first embargoed trade with Cuba in 1960, in retaliation for Castro's seizure of U.S. property, Canada decided that Washington's quarrel was none of its own. Canada has steadfastly declined even to join the Organization of American States. Going it alone, Canada's exports to Castro rose from $13 million to $24.5 million last year...
...Lutherans differ from Roman Catholics? The question might seem elementary, but the Board of Parish Education of the United Lutheran Church was not satisfied with the existing literature. Six years ago, the board ordered a new textbook, to be called The Difference, for use in adult catechism courses...
Such bits are themselves the birdseed scattered through The Concise Encyclopedia of Crime and Criminals, the agreeable useless information that spices its usefulness. For the layman-though the specialist, whether on the bench or behind bars, may differ-the book commits no editorial high crimes, merely misdemeanors involving disproportion, inconsistency, British bias, together with some doubtless conscious sins of omission. If it fails to canvass its subject from A to Z (the last entry stops at Y), or from Lapland to Patagonia (it mostly treats Britain, the U.S. and Europe), or from hokus to strychnine (it wholly neglects weapons...
...States Differ...
...judge the vanquished. "Is Hiroshima," he wonders, "the superior morality?" And there are several scenes of punishing mockery in which U.S. authorities, worried by Russian aggressiveness and anxious to win the support of the German public, try to persuade Judge Tracy to acquit the defendants. Do they essentially differ, Kramer asks, from the Nazi politicians who put pressure on the very German judges Tracy is trying...