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March 31, 2006

Gorbachev in Portsmouth as club's special guest

PORTSMOUTH -- Mikhail Gorbachev is on Aquidneck Island today, a guest of the private sporting club, Carnegie Abbey, where he will hold a question-and-answer session tomorrow evening.

The former president of the Soviet Union arrived in Rhode Island last night. He will stay at the Abbey until Sunday, according to a club spokesman.

There are no public appearances planned aside from Saturday evening. Gorbachev, 75, will field questions from the media tomorrow from 5 to 6 p.m., following by a question-and-answer session with club members and their guests.

The latter session will be closed to the public.

Gorbachev, who was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990. His work as a world leader ended in 1991, on the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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