Georgian Thanks Voters for Mandate
<i> Associated Press</i>
TBILISI, Georgia —
Georgian leader Eduard A. Shevardnadze thanked his people Monday for a mandate to govern the troubled former Soviet republic, a vote that further undermined his ousted predecessor’s bid for power.
“The load I have taken upon myself is the heaviest one ever,” Shevardnadze said in his first public statement since officials announced his landslide victory.
Sunday’s vote put a stamp of popular approval on the violent ouster of former President Zviad Gamsakhurdia in January.
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