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- <text id=92TT0604>
- <title>
- Mar. 23, 1992: World Notes:Georgia
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Mar. 23, 1992 Clinton vs. Tsongas
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 43
- World Notes
- GEORGIA
- Comeback Politics
- </hdr><body>
- <p> In Russia he is known as the incorruptible paladin of
- democracy who resigned because he could not countenance
- dictatorship. To the rest of the world he was the public face of
- perestroika who played a pivotal role in ending the cold war. So
- it is a bit strange to see Eduard Shevardnadze staging a comeback
- in the one place where his reputation has been dogged by obloquy:
- his native Georgia.
- </p>
- <p> During the republic's campaign for independence, the
- erstwhile friend of Mikhail Gorbachev was branded a "top Kremlin
- agent." But in the wake of ousting dissident turned despot Zviad
- Gamsakhurdia in January, Tbilisi leaders took a more benign view
- of the onetime Georgian Communist Party boss and last week
- appointed him to chair the new State Council, effectively giving
- Shevardnadze stewardship of his mountainous homeland. The
- veteran diplomat now faces pressing tasks: staving off economic
- collapse, healing the divisions created by months of civil
- strife and ending the isolation into which Georgia was pushed
- during Gamsakhurdia's flirtation with dictatorship.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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