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Givi G. Gumbaridze, who has been Georgia's KGB chief for two months, was elected to replace Patiashvili. Gumbaridze, 45, previously served as party leader in Tbilisi, Georgia's capital city of 1.2 million people...
Premier Zurab Chkheidze also was removed at a separate meeting of Georgia's Presidium, or top government body, the official Tass news agency reported from Tbilisi. Nodari Chitanava, a Central Committee secretary, was named the new head of the republic's government, Tass said...
However, Zhorab Lomidze, deputy director of the official Georgian news agency Gruzinform, said by telephone from Tbilisi that the officials were replaced "because they did not maintain order in the city...
Signs posted at Tbilisi State University after the clash outside local government headquarters vilified Patiashvili as a "killer." The 49-year-old Georgian was elected first secretary in July 1985, succeeding Shevardndze...
Last week Soviet citizens saw stirring evidence of the new cultural freedom. A recently released film, Repentance, by Director Tengiz Abuladze, was screened for select audiences in Moscow and Tbilisi. Blending fact and fantasy, the film conveys the message that the Soviet Union has yet to acknowledge the horrors of Stalinism. In another dramatic first, a spring 1987 publication date was announced for Soviet Author Anatoli Rybakov's The Children of the Arbat, a major novel about the Stalin era in which the dictator himself is a leading character...