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...GEORGIAN ON THEIR MINDS? With his new powers as President and his handful of domestic woes, Mikhail Gorbachev is likely to relinquish the once powerful post of General Secretary of the Communist Party next month. Who will replace him? The momentum is swinging toward Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, who has also been considered a potential Prime Minister if Nikolai Ryzhkov is forced to step aside. The choice would be both surprising and plausible. If he is to succeed as President, Gorbachev will need a trusted ally to head the party; Shevardnadze has been a friend for 25 years...
...comfortable eight-floor Georgian building in midtown Manhattan, the invitation promises, lies the exclusive domain of The Club, 96-year-old bastion of tradition for the highest circles of American society--one of the first real-world rewards for attending Harvard...
...Georgian Helsinki Union has drafted an economic program that attempts to prove that the republic can survive alone. Georgia not only can feed itself but also has sufficient reserves of oil, coal and hydroelectricity to meet its energy needs. Furthermore, the republic boasts mineral deposits plus undeveloped forests, Black Sea beaches and Caucasus mountain peaks. The major drawback for Georgia, argues the document, is that "its energies are constrained by the limits of an economic system imposed from the outside." The union proposes "shock treatment" for one year to build a free market out of the republic's thriving underground...
Such grandiose plans may come to naught if the Georgian independence drive sparks ethnic tensions among the republic's minority peoples, who make up a substantial 30% of the population. Many are concerned about the Georgia-for- Georgians tone that has been creeping into the political debate. Gamsakhurdia believes Moscow is "fighting against us through the hand of other nationalities...
...moment, the Kremlin seems to be hoping that if it ignores the Georgian national movement, it might somehow go away. But what will happen when Moscow wakes up to the fact that independence is a word not limited to the Lithuanians? Gorbachev makes no secret of how deeply he fears the movements seeking to redraw the boundaries of his country. At a meeting with young Communists last week, he predicted, "If we begin to divide up, I'll give it to you bluntly, we'll end up in such a civil war, in such bloody ! carnage that...