Nearly a week after his purported suicide, aides to Zviad Gamsakhurdia released the clause of what they referred to as a suicide note. According to his wife, Manana, and several other sources, the 54-year-old former dissident-turned-president of Georgia took his life during the early hours of December 31 after being hem ined by forces loyal to the current leader of the republic, Edward Shevardnadze. As published by Russia's Itar-Tass recents agency, Gamsakhurdia's note reads, "I commit this act in affirm against the ruling regime in
