Word: peninsulas
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SEOUL: In a surprise move, North Korea moved to ease tensions on the peninsula by backing down from its earlier insistence that South Korean agents had actually kidnapped prominent defector Hwang Yang Jop. Instead, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said that if the key member of the Communist Party's Central Committee voluntarily went to the consulate, "he is a renegade and he is dismissed." The announcement followed assurances by South Korea Monday that it will send food aid and nuclear technicians to the North despite feelings that Pyongyang was behind the shooting in Seoul this weekend of a prominent North...
...opponents of a multicultural student center on the panel convened last night at Ticknor Lounge, namely Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and Peninsula hack John C. Appelbaum '97, conceded, in the end, that life itself can be unfair with regard to race and that Harvard too can act in a racist fashion. The admission was honest and true, and no doubt personally felt by both the Dean and the columnist. But for some reason their (different) understandings of the problems surrounding race at the College and in this country did not translate for them into the desire...
...students who participated in the panel, with the exception of Undergraduate Council Treasurer John Appelbaum '97, a member of the Peninsula, were in favor of the center's creation...
...President Kim Il Sung and a prize product of the system, a graduate of North Korea's elite Kim Il Sung University and Moscow University in the late 1950s. Hwang would be the highest-ranking North Korean official to defect to the South since the division of the Korean Peninsula a half-century ago. His stunning move puts Beijing, a traditional ally of Pyongyang, in a bind. Allowing him to fly to Seoul will embarrass and infuriate North Korea. South Korean officials are conferring with the Chinese government on how to bring Hwang to Seoul. Unless a face-saving compromise...
...Crimson's new editors to spearhead the effort to untie this knot and move the Crimson into the diverse 90s. In my four years here, I have heard too many people complain about the Crimson as a white newspaper. While we expect other publications--the Lampoon, Peninsula, the Advocate, etc. to be all-white institutions, I hope we hold higher expectations for the Crimson since, after all, it is the one student publication which can set an example for all of the other publications here and at other colleges...