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MANY TBILISI RESIDENTS ESCAPE to dachas in the hills above the Georgian capital during summer weekends, but not Eduard Shevardnadze. For the former Soviet Foreign Minister and current chairman of the republic's provisional State Council, affairs of state continue nonstop. Seven days a week, from 8:30 a.m. until well after midnight, Shevardnadze is on the job, working the battery of telephones on his desk beneath a silver icon of the madonna and child. On Monday fighting broke out again in the secessionist region of Abkhazia. On Tuesday Russian forces killed several Georgian guardsmen in the Abkhazian capital. Wednesday...
...fire-blackened walls of Tbilisi's Government House are a grim reminder of the street battle last December that toppled Gamsakhurdia, Georgia's first popularly elected President. The fervently patriotic Georgians had been quick to follow the lead of the Baltic republics in breaking away from Moscow early in 1990, but the majority admit they were duped by the charismatic nationalist, whose dictatorial policies turned democratic forces against him. * Gamsakhurdia instituted no economic reforms and left the state bureaucracy in a shambles. His worst legacy, though, was to set his compatriots on a collision course with ethnic minorities who felt...
...nights," with battling pugs drawn from the hard, desperate edge of Irish, Polish, Italian and Jewish street gangs -- kids who would pound each other to hash for a purse under the eyes of a flushed, yelling house. The sport was barely a notch up from the bareknuckle slugging of Georgian England...
...idea of a divorce, hoping to capture the White House with just the North and the West. But the landslide defeats of 1984 and 1988 put an end to that, and last week the chastened party turned southward again by nominating Southerners for both President and Vice President. Said Georgian Jimmy Carter, as he prepared to address the delegates: "I think I've heard more Southern accents here this week than at the convention that nominated...
Meanwhile, Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze put down a coup attempt in Tbilisi and arrived several hours late for still another peace negotiation in Sochi. He and Yeltsin signed an agreement to end the fighting in South Ossetia, a part of Georgia where secessionists demand union with North Ossetia, a part of Russia...