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...J.F.K. is my political idol." MIKHAIL SAAKASHVILI, U.S.-educated opposition leader in Georgia who helped bring on the resignation of President Eduard Shevardnadze and is favored to replace...
...Order will be restored, and the criminals will be punished." EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE, President of Georgia, after protesters stormed the former Soviet republic's parliament and forced him to flee the hall in what he later described as a coup d'etat...
...that their biggest worry is not the value of the currency - fake bills make up only a small fraction of the total number in circulation, they believe - but rather the possibility that vendors will stop accepting some bills. "We are still in the 'green' [i.e., safe] period," says Eduard Liedgens, head of anticounterfeiting at the Bavarian police and one of Germany's top fraud investigators. "It is not hurting the economy. But there is a problem of trust." Mindful of that threat, police in Eastern Europe - with the assistance of the European Union's law-enforcement branch, Europol - have been...
...country was in chaos, its leadership uncertain, its territorial integrity threatened - and there were still some fears that the velvet might become stained with blood. The legislative body, elected in Nov 2. polls that were marred by charges of widespread vote rigging, had been ordered into session by President Eduard Shevardnadze, but only 114 of the 235 deputies had bothered to show up. The security services, who had earlier said they would use force to protect the meeting, abruptly withdrew. Shielded by his bodyguards, an enraged Shevardnadze escaped the raging crowd, only to find the streets outside packed with some...
...settlement for Cyprus "could become a serious obstacle" to Turkey's hopes of starting talks on E.U. entry in 2005. Flawed Result GEORGIA Thousands of protesters gathered in the capital, Tbilisi, in support of opposition groups claiming that parliamentary elections in the former Soviet republic were rigged by President Eduard Shevardnadze's government. Interim results had a pro-Shevardnadze bloc vying for the lead with a regional grouping allied to the government, despite exit polls that showed popular support for the radical opposition. International observers claimed the election was marred by serious irregularities. A Credible Threat SAUDI ARABIA Just...