Word: dzhumber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...authorities immediately imposed an 11 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew. Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, a native of Georgia, canceled a trip to East and West Germany and flew to Tbilisi, where he appealed for calm. A government commission was set up to investigate the deaths, and Georgian party boss Dzhumber Patiashvili resigned along with two other members of the republic's ruling Politburo. In an emotional speech reported on Vremya, the nightly news program, Patiashvili had already admitted that "this is our mutual grief, and we are responsible...
Communist Party First Secretary Dzhumber I. Patiashvili, who had accepted responsibility for the tragedy, had his resignation accepted unanimously by the party's Central Committee after "heated discussion," said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Gennady I. Gerasimov...
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