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...wait seemed interminable, the suspense unbearable, the foreboding all too palpable. Los Angeles police reported to their stations at dawn Saturday, ready for a replay of last year's arson and looting; 600 National Guardsmen gathered in armories to back them up; at Camp Pendleton 70 miles away, U.S. Marines had been practicing urban assault tactics in case neither the cops nor the National Guard could quench the flames of racial riot...
...from 8:30 a.m. until well after midnight, Shevardnadze is on the job, working the battery of telephones on his desk beneath a silver icon of the madonna and child. On Monday fighting broke out again in the secessionist region of Abkhazia. On Tuesday Russian forces killed several Georgian guardsmen in the Abkhazian capital. Wednesday, hard-line nationalists attempted to open a new front in eastern Georgia. On Thursday Shevardnadze flew to Moscow to negotiate another Abkhazian cease-fire. The endless string of crises has set back his goal of building a democratic Georgia and taught Shevardnadze that his civilized...
...troops that had quelled the riots gradually withdrew. Army and Marine Corps regulars pulled out, on the proviso that the Marines would maintain a "rapid reaction" force capable of returning to the streets on three hours' notice. Some National Guard units also started to withdraw, leaving 6,000 Guardsmen still on patrol...
...Guard, 538 have been shipped back to Haiti, 350 have been sent to camps in four Caribbean nations, and more than 2,300 are aboard Coast Guard cutters or have been transferred to U.S. troop ships and the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. According to Coast Guardsmen who took part in the rescue effort, many of the fleeing Haitians' boats are no better than floating coffins. Many of the passengers are so seasick, hungry and dehydrated that they cannot answer the questions put to them by overworked immigration officers stationed on the cutters...
...Georgia hostilities deepened as renegade national guardsmen joined civilian efforts to oust Zviad Gamsakhurdia, the republic's authoritarian president. About 60 rebel guardsmen were reported killed in a clash with republic troops . . . The seizure of power in Tadzhikistan by Rakhman Nabiev, a hard-line former Communist Party chief, prompted thousands of people to defy a newly imposed state of emergency. Crying "Communist coup!," protesters vowed to resist Nabiev's administration . . . Armenia and Azerbaijan signed an agreement calling for a cease-fire and negotiations to end their dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan, but the fighting continued. Among...