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- PEOPLE, Page 85Born Again ... As Georgi
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- By GINIA BELLAFANTE
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- 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- outdated image.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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