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...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 and Stalin convened to redraw the map of Europe. That was 47 years ago, when the Crimea fell unquestionably within the Kremlin's empire and only dreamers...
Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachevalso delivered a speech at the school and answeredquestions from the audience of students...
NOTHING ABOUT MIKHAIL GORBAchev's triumphal two-week tour of the U.S. $ suggested that he was a politician removed from power. Americans, who still see the last President of the Soviet Union as the man most responsible for ending the cold war, received him with standing ovations from Stanford University to the New York Stock Exchange to Capitol Hill. Though he resigned his office more than four months ago, he has lost neither the aura nor the trappings of a major political figure...
...Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi has given the Palestinians a new face...
...PERFECT COINCIDENCE OF NEED AND ability: the Palestinians and Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi. That's why it is her face you see, her voice you hear speaking for her people, brilliantly recasting their cause as a cry for human justice. No longer can the world sum up -- and dismiss -- the Palestinians in the portrait of a stubble-bearded man wrapped in a kaffiyeh. This woman looks civilized, unthreatening, someone you'd like to invite to dinner, and she speaks with a compelling eloquence. With exquisite timing or luck or preternatural planning, she was there, this medieval-literature scholar, devoted mother, Christian...