SECURITY MINISTRY REORGANIZED AFTER ASSAULT ON SHEVARDNADZE.

Following an internal investigation, Georgia’s State Security Ministry assessed as “unsatisfactory” the performance of some of its departments in connection with last February’s assassination attempt against President Eduard Shevardnadze. At a senior staff meeting it was accordingly decided to dismiss the heads of both the antiterrorism department and another department responsible for security in Tbilisi, and to urgently reorganize these departments. (Kavkazia-Press, May 1) Minister Jemal Gahokidze had anticipated the investigation’s findings by admitting to poor performance on the part of some elements of the ministry soon after the assassination attempt.

HAVE GEORGIAN GUERRILLAS SEIZED GROUND IN ABKHAZIA.