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...stickup? Or by an overzealous guard at a checkpoint? Or by assassins gunning for him or Gogoladze? The murder remains a mystery. American officials say the killing may have been a random event. Highwaymen regularly prey on motorists along that road. Although three locals were detained and questioned by Georgian authorities several days after the murder, a U.S. official says they were "not political." Two FBI agents flew to Tbilisi last week to participate in the investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Casualty of Chaos | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

Washington wants to help Shevardnadze's government regain control, and dispatched Woodruff to provide antiterrorist training to the bodyguards of top Georgian officials, teaching them defensive measures, negotiation tactics and crisis management. But in Georgia's highly charged politics, something as benign as preventing assassination can still be taken as a provocation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Casualty of Chaos | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

Washington -- Moscow officially claims to be neutral in the conflicts brewing in the former Soviet republic of GEORGIA. But U.S. and Georgian intelligence reports show that the Russian army has been providing weapons, detailed intelligence and direct operational military support to Abkhazian separatists fighting the Georgian government. Also, Russian military-intelligence officers have met with opponents of Georgian head of state Eduard Shevardnadze and discussed demonstrations against him that are planned for September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Informed Sources: Aug. 23, 1993 | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

...Georgian army officer and grandson of a czarist general, Shalikashvili was born in Warsaw and at the end of World War II fled Poland with his family in a cattle car, just ahead of the Soviet army. After migrating to the U.S. and teaching himself English by watching John Wayne movies, he joined the Army and steadily rose through the ranks. A virtually unpronounceable surname (shah-lee-kash-VEE-lee) and a reputation for passing on to subordinates the credit that more flamboyant officers reserve for themselves have earned him the diminutive "General Shali." He made his first international impact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military Maneuvers | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

...Polish-Georgian immigrant is surprise Joint Chiefs Chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Aug. 23, 1993 | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

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