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When Georgia's rugby team plays England in Perth on Oct. 12, thousands will be watching on big screens in downtown Tbilisi. In the former Soviet republic, rugby is now second only to football in popularity, especially since the national team beat arch rivals Russia to qualify for the Rugby World Cup. But most local teams don't have stadiums to play in, the players pay their own way to matches, and "if they swap shirts at the end of a game," says sports journalist Paata Tortadze, "they may find themselves without kit the next week." In places like Georgia...
...Kidnapped English businessman Peter Shaw was about to be shot on a mountain path in Pankisi Gorge when he broke free and hid in gorse bushes. He escaped after five months captivity, during which he had been kept chained in a cellar. The banker was seized in June in Tbilisi by a gang disguised as policemen. His unaided escape will do little to enhance President Eduard Shevardnadze's claim that he's asserting authority over the gorge. FRANCE That's All Folks A Red Cross refugee camp at Sangatte, in northern France, shut its doors to new entrants and began...
...killing one generation, the Russians are breeding a new generation with even more reason to fight." Pankisi's reputation made everyone involved with the production nervous. "My parents will never allow me to go there," the Georgian female lead, Nata Gulyashvili, kept telling Mazayev as they rehearsed in Tbilisi. They eventually agreed that she wouldn't tell her family they were shooting in Pankisi. Mazayev obtained the blessing of the local Chechen guerrilla commander, Ruslan Gelayev, and fighters sometimes hovered on the fringes of the set. One became so smitten with Gulyashvili that he requested Mazayev's permission to speak...
...Soviet Union. The most independently-minded region is Abkhazia, to which the Georgian-held Kodori valley is the strategic gateway. And Georgian officials fear that if Russian pressure forces their troops out of the valley in the coming days and weeks, that could bring down Shevardnadze's government in Tbilisi...
...overcapacity in Germany's - and Europe's - wireless sector will remain. Which means it's only a matter of time until someone else gets his chance to be saved. OIL A Pipe Dream Comes True Sometimes a pipe is just a pipe. A few years ago, the planned Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline from the Caspian Sea through Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and into the Mediterranean was touted by the U.S. as a way to get the Caspian's rich oil reserves without going through Russia. But there was a hitch: oil companies weren't terribly interested. With prices and demand still...