Word: georgias
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Gunmen are holding four U.N. officials hostage in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, demanding the release of 10 of their comrades arrested for attempting to assassinate President Eduard Shevardnadze...
...rooted in oil politics, says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "There is suspicion that elements in the Russian security forces have given support to attacks on Shevardnadze," says Meier. Part of the reason might be that Western oil companies plan to route an Azerbaijan-Turkey oil pipeline through Georgia rather than Russia. "Russian interests would like to have some control over the pipeline, and Shevardnadze is regarded as a guarantor of Western interests in the region...
Arkansas at Georgia, ESPN...
RankTeam Record Yesterday 1. Duke 21-2 Beat N.C. State 65-49 2. North Carolina 24-1 Beat Georgia Tech 107-100 (20T) 3. Kansas 26-3 Beat Missouri 80-70 4. Arizona 21-3 Next at Arizona State, Saturday 5. Utah 20-1 Next at Wyoming, Thursday 6. UCLA 18-4 Next vs. No. 9 Stanford, Thursday 7. Connecticut 21-3 Next at No.15 W. Virginia, Wed. 8. Kentucky 21-3 Beat Villanova 79-63 9. Stanford 19-3 Next at No. 6 UCLA, Thursday 10. Purdue 20-4 Next vs. Indiana, Tuesday 11. Princeton 18-1 Next...
...over them, are now worried that they chill warnings about food safety. "The statutes at first were regarded as quirky and weird, but they are an area where First Amendment rights are bumping up against commercial interests," says Emory University law professor David Bederman, who tried unsuccessfully to challenge Georgia's food-disparagement law. If such laws had existed in the 1960s, environmentalists say, people would have been afraid to criticize the pesticide DDT, which was considered safe until it was proved to cause cancer and then banned in the U.S. "Going back to Upton Sinclair and The Jungle...