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...Tbilisi embassy but actually the CIA's acting station chief, spent Sunday afternoon on a sight-seeing trip to the village of Kasbegi. He was riding home in a white, four-wheel-drive Niva jeep driven by Eldar Gogoladze, who heads the security unit in charge of protecting top Georgian officials, when suddenly, sometime after 9:30 p.m., a single bullet pierced the brain of the 45-year-old American. Gogoladze was unharmed...
...every satisfied Natasha, how many in the spreading diaspora are victims of pimps and gangs? "Almost all the women are abused," claims Antwerp social worker Patsy Sorenson, who has helped more than 40 East European prostitutes escape. "The Georgian Mafia is the most violent: rapes, threats with guns and beatings." Equally notorious in Berlin and Prague: the so-called Chechen Boys, North Caucasians who reportedly deal in weapons, counterfeit money, drugs and women. Francine Meert, head of Le Nid, a Brussels aid group, says, "Many of the girls have broken teeth. They say they fell downstairs. But there...
...footbridge, and the sun was going down over the stadium, and it was so beautiful," he recalls. "We had this image at that point--MIT was this army barracks and Harvard was this beautiful Georgian campus. Pretty much on that footbridge, we decided to come here...
...major player in the deficit-reduction debate, the good gray Nunn, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, has nonetheless given Clinton fits on the gays-in-the-military issue and believes the President is trying to cut too much, too fast out of the defense budget. Nunn, a Georgian, still harbors the thought of being called Mr. President one day. Some say his dogged opposition to the lifting of the ban on gays in the military -- even if all sides seem to be heading toward a compromise on that issue -- was fueled mainly by pique at being passed over...
...sell their lethal skills for just a few thousand dollars. Former Soviet pilots are acting as mercenaries and flying Su-25s in sorties against positions in the republic of Georgia for a mere $5,000 a trip. The money is being paid by Abkhazian separatists trying to force Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze to let their enclave become an independent state...