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Somerville said birth control pills, which somesay account for the rise of breast cancer over thepast two decades, were not available in therepublics of the former Soviet Union. But a 1989study shows that incidence of breast cancer amongRussian, Estonian, and Soviet Georgian womentripled from 1960-1987, he said...
With military help from neighboring countries, Georgian government regulars and rebel forces have each scored important victories against the other. Using Russian-supplied T-72 tanks and personnel, troops loyal to Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze drove the rebels into their last redoubt, in the western region of the republic. But with the help of reinforcements from Abkhazia, the separatists staged a powerful counteroffensive, recapturing an important town...
Recent events in Georgia provide a textbook case of this strategy. The devastating defeat that Abkhazian rebels dealt to Georgian troops in September would have been impossible without support from Russia's army. Subsequently, the Georgian leader, Eduard Shevardnadze, was forced to beg Yeltsin for membership in the C.I.S. The endgame is obvious: a bilateral treaty providing Russia's military with permanent bases in Georgia, including control over its strategic Black Sea coast...
After Georgia promised to join the Commonwealth of Independent States, dominated by Russia, Moscow agreed to send troops to defend a vital railway in the western part of the republic, where fighting between rebels and government forces persists. Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze has accused the Russian military of helping the Abkhazian separatists...
Ironically, the principal architects of Georgia's predicament may be the same Russian military commanders who are supposed to be enforcing the U.N.-sanctioned cease-fire. At least that's what Georgian officials and CIA sources charge. A minority of only 17% in their own homeland, the Abkhazians have turned to Russia for help. Georgians are convinced that vindictive Russian army officers, bent on taking revenge for the role Shevardnadze played in the collapse of the Soviet empire, are providing battlefield intelligence plus Russian Grad missiles and SU-25 fighters to the Abkhazians, who previously were armed with shotguns...