GEORGIA’S PRESIDENT AWARDED AS NATION-BUILDER.

The Richard Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom has conferred on Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze the 1988 Award for Nation-Building. According to an accompanying statement, the award takes into account Shevardnadze’s efforts and “Georgia’s significance to U.S. interests.” The Center’s bipartisan board made the decision unanimously. (Russian agencies, July 12)

GEORGIAN ARMY DEMORALIZED, MINISTER SAYS.