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- <title>
- Jan. 27, 1992: World Notes:Georgia
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Jan. 27, 1992 Is Bill Clinton For Real?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 38
- World Notes
- GEORGIA
- Here He Comes Again
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Two weeks ago, Georgians had every reason to think that Zviad
- Gamsakhurdia wouldn't be on hand to kick them around anymore.
- The ousted President, elected with 87% of the vote only seven
- months earlier, had seen his popularity collapse amid charges of
- repression and high-handedness. Gamsakhurdia had fled the
- capital of Tbilisi after the surging opposition successfully
- launched a 16-day siege. Last week he reappeared in western
- Georgia calling for a massive offensive "to do away with the
- junta" that had replaced him.
- </p>
- <p> Neighboring Armenia had granted Gamsakhurdia a safe haven
- on condition that he abstain from politics. Ten days later, he
- allegedly flew to nearby Chechen-Ingush, a rebellious region in
- Russia. From there he made his way to Zugdidi, center of his
- traditional power base, where his supporters were gathering.
- </p>
- <p> The ruling Military Council in Tbilisi braced for trouble.
- It ordered troops to the western region, accused Armenia of
- trying to provoke civil war and charged the ousted President
- with abuse of power, embezzlement and inciting ethnic hatreds.
- </p>
- <p> Since Georgia is already facing ethnic conflicts in the
- regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Gamsakhurdia's latest
- move seemed likely to bring his country to the brink of the
- civil war that he has been calling for.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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