TBILISI ASKS MOSCOW TO HELP CONTROL REFUGEES.

Refugees from the Abkhazfighting have threatened to take up arms against the Georgian authorities,Moskovskie novosti reported May 23. As a result, Georgian President EduardShevardnadze has asked Moscow for assistance in controlling the situation.Any assistance would tighten Moscow’s hold on that republic. Tbilisi’s appealcame while General John Shalikashvili, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs ofStaff, was on a visit to the land of his ancestors.

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