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...public finally saw that they have power in this country," says Akaki Gogichaishvili, producer of 60 Minutes. But how much had really changed after the dismissals? By the time Shevardnadze had named his "new" cabinet, reappointing most ministers and replacing Targamadze with one of the former Interior Minister's deputies, the debate had shifted. Parliamentary factions realigned amid deals and odd alliances, and no one could figure out who exactly was the opposition anymore. Two points of view emerged: reform vs. status...
...Soviet and Socialist from the republic's name and inaugurate a transitional period to full independence. Georgia has announced that it will not sign the new Union Treaty proposed by Gorbachev and has sent only 10% of its quota of conscripts to the armed forces. Says deputy parliamentary chairman Akaki Asatiani: "We make no secret of the fact that we are anticommunists committed to Georgian independence...
...hours around midnight, soldiers kept arriving at the stone-walled Akaki prison with truckload after truckload of prisoners. There were repeated bursts of machine-gun fire. Only the next morning did the stunned citizens of Addis Ababa hear the radio announcement that the ruling Provisional Military Council, after nine months of relative moderation, had summarily executed 59 members of the regime of deposed Emperor Haile Selassie. "My God," said a Western diplomat in the Ethiopian capital, "they've wiped out the old aristocracy in a single stroke...
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