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Patches of snow still glimmer on the craggy mountains above, but on the Black Sea coast of the Crimean peninsula summer has arrived. In Yalta the terraced stone walls of the old town are draped in purple wisteria and wild yellow roses, and the first wave of tourists has come to stroll among the palmettos, ! cypresses and golden rain trees lining the town's crooked streets. Though it was not far from Yalta that Mikhail Gorbachev spent three days under house arrest last August during the coup attempt, the resort is best remembered as the site where Churchill, Roosevelt...
...newspaper article. Two days later, in a closed-door session, the Russian parliament upped the ante by voting to annul the 1954 transfer of the Crimea to Ukraine as "an illegal act" of the Communist Party and called for negotiations between Kiev and Moscow to decide the peninsula's status...
...special issue of Peninsula focusing on homosexuality is distributed on campus and prompts a firestorm of protest. The conservative student magazine devotes most of the issue's 56 pages to articles on what its writers call "a badalternative" to heterosexuality...
...Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett'57 condemns "insensitive language and innuendoes"in a flyer posted by the conservative campusmagazine Peninsula. The flyer advertises aforum entitled "Spade Kicks: A Symposium onModernity and the Negro as a Paradigm of SexualLiberation...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Black StudentsAssociation distributes a flyer to allundergraduates charging that Blacks are treatedlike second-class citizens on campus. The poster,titled, "On the Harvard Plantation," condemns the"hostile environment" of the campus and blames theUniversity Police, the Law School,Peninsula and The Crimson for "injusticesperpetrated against people of color...