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Finally, Mower residents enjoy choice seating at all Harvard Glee Club events because we are right next to Holden Chapel. (We also have the privilege of marvelling at its wonderful Georgian architecture each morning as we trek to breakfast...
Shaking their fists defiantly, protesters last week massed at the government house in Tbilisi, capital of the Georgian republic, chanting, "Lithuania! Lithuania! Lithuania!" For this fiercely independent nation of 5.4 million in the Caucasus, the troubles in the Baltics far to the north seemed alarmingly near. Georgians had already felt the Kremlin's determination to keep the union intact, when Soviet paratroopers armed with sharpened spades brutally dispersed a nationalist demonstration in April 1989, killing 20 people. Just as the Baltic states showed support in that hour of crisis, Georgians embraced the tragedy in Vilnius last week...
...Georgians have every reason to be worried that they may be high on Moscow's target list. The republic has been on a collision course with the Kremlin ever since Gamsakhurdia's nationalist coalition won an election victory last October. The first acts of the new parliament were to drop the words Soviet and Socialist from the republic's name and inaugurate a transitional period to full independence. Georgia has announced that it will not sign the new Union Treaty proposed by Gorbachev and has sent only 10% of its quota of conscripts to the armed forces. Says deputy parliamentary...
...took control of the republic in 1921. Last September, as the rest of Georgia was moving toward independence, the South Ossetian regional council declared the area to be a "Soviet Democratic Republic" loyal to Moscow. The parliament in Tbilisi responded by dissolving the autonomous region altogether. Conflicts between the Georgian police and local separatists have resulted in at least 12 deaths...
...weeks ago, Gorbachev struck down both legislative acts and gave the Georgians three days to withdraw their "armed formations" from South Ossetia. Gamsakhurdia rejected the ultimatum. "We understand," he told Moscow, "that you have the power at your disposal to try to suppress the national independence movement in Georgia. But what would be the price of that victory? And would it be a victory?" A visiting Soviet parliamentary commission hinted last week that Moscow might be willing to allow Georgian police to remain in the region but wanted guarantees of its "cultural autonomy...