Gorbachev Mulling U.N. Visit This Year
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UNITED NATIONS — New Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev is considering a possible visit to the United Nations this year, a U.N. spokesman said Monday.
Spokesman Francois Giuliani said that Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar raised the idea in an indirect way when he and Gorbachev met for half an hour in Moscow last Thursday.
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