1.  No one doubts that North Korea has a crippling food shortage.

2.  Britain has blamed a crippling food crisis in Malawi on government mismanagement.

3.  Hall, a nutrition expert, had just returned from a four-day mission to Stalinist North Korea to assess crippling food shortages.

4.  Hall had just returned from a four-day mission to North Korea to investigate the crippling food shortages.

5.  Hall had just returned from a four-day mission to North Korea to investigate the crippling food shortages,