Word: georgian
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...this tradition which I'd just entered. Here was the idyllic setting I had refused to allow myself to imagine. Never mind that Harvard's past was not part of my own cultural heritage. For someone who had gone gaga over things colonial--over quill pens, tricornered hats, and Georgian architecture--living in Holworthy, in the Yard, was perfect...
...volunteered his services several weeks ago after watching Perot on Larry King's TV show. More cerebral than his aw-shucks manner might suggest, Jordan went to work for Carter in the late 1960s and drafted the 1972 memo that served as the blueprint for Carter's march from Georgian obscurity to the White House. Carter's campaign as an ) outsider running against Washington in 1976, notes his longtime friend Bert Lance, is reminiscent of Perot's pose as a new broom unsullied by politics...
During the republic's campaign for independence, the erstwhile friend of Mikhail Gorbachev was branded a "top Kremlin agent." But in the wake of ousting dissident turned despot Zviad Gamsakhurdia in January, Tbilisi leaders took a more benign view of the onetime Georgian Communist Party boss and last week appointed him to chair the new State Council, effectively giving Shevardnadze stewardship of his mountainous homeland. The veteran diplomat now faces pressing tasks: staving off economic collapse, healing the divisions created by months of civil strife and ending the isolation into which Georgia was pushed during Gamsakhurdia's flirtation with dictatorship...
With his special brand of mystical nationalism, Gamsakhurdia had become such a commanding figure on the Georgian political stage that it is hard to see how any of the current leaders could aspire to replace him. Fault lines have already begun to show in the loosely united anti-Gamsakhurdia alliance, especially between the politicians and the paramilitary men. "The council's only uniting factor has been opposition to Gamsakhurdia," said a British diplomat. "Now that he is gone, they are falling out among themselves." Not all its members are equally committed to parliamentary democracy and presidential rule. Georgi Chanturia...
There is one Georgian who rivals Gamsakhurdia in stature and who, as a former local Communist Party boss, knows every eddy in the complicated crosscurrents of Tbilisi politics: former Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. In talks with the putsch leaders last week, he offered his help in getting democratic reform back on track. He publicly praised the takeover as a "democratic revolution" and promised "to devote all my energy to starting a movement of international support for building a democratic Georgia." Shevardnadze would certainly lend any post-Gamsakhurdia leadership the kind of authority it needs in the West...