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- <title>
- Dec. 07, 1992: Born Again ... As Georgi
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Dec. 07, 1992 Can Russia Escape Its Past?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 85
- Born Again...As Georgi
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- <p>By Ginia Bellafante
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- <p> Many people see a job change as a chance to refurbish an
- outdated image. But EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE, the recently elected
- chairman of the Georgian parliament, has gone beyond getting a
- few new suits and a haircut. Last week the former Soviet Foreign
- Minister announced he had found himself a new religion.
- Shevardnadze, 64 and a onetime professed atheist, told a radio
- interviewer he had been baptized not long ago in a Georgian
- Orthodox cathedral and had assumed the Christian name Georgi.
- "I have an icon in my office now," said Shevardnadze, referring
- to a picture of the Virgin Mary. "Though there was a time when
- I had Stalin's portrait on the wall."
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- </body></article>
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