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...months since George Bush's Inauguration, the world has been waiting to discover what attitude the new U.S. Administration would adopt toward the extraordinary events in the Soviet Union. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze have continued their odysseys through world capitals, proclaiming the promise of perestroika and the end of ideological conflict. All the while, the White House has turned away questions -- whether from allies, Soviets or the American press -- with the explanation that a sweeping policy review was under...
Glasnost may mean greater openness in the U.S.S.R., but it isn't every day that you can drop in for tea with the Soviet Foreign Minister. But last week Moscow bureau chief John Kohan and correspondent Ann Blackman did, joining Eduard Shevardnadze in his seventh-floor Kremlin office for tea and his first interview with an American magazine. At one point Shevardnadze, graciously offering a cup to Blackman, allowed that by his own count, he has appeared in TIME on at least 40 occasions...
...later died of their wounds. It was the worst day of ethnic violence in the Soviet Union since February 1988, when 32 died after gangs of Azerbaijanis hunted down Armenians in the Azerbaijan city of Sumgait. The 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...
...when Moscow attempted to replace Georgian with Russian as the republic's official language, protesters flooded the avenues of Tbilisi. But the region's party secretary defused the crisis by boldly stepping before the angry crowds and announcing that he agreed with them. His name: Eduard Shevardnadze...
...Nobody and nothing can justify the deaths of innocent people," said Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze, the former party chief in the southern republic who was dispatched to his homeland after Sunday's bloodshed, in a speech to the local party plenum that made the leadership changes...