rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams) (12/28/85)
Somehow net.consumers seemed the most appropriate location
for this item, reprinted without permission from The New
York Times of 12/27/85:
Last spring, the Cartier's jewelry store in London
put on a stiff upper lip and declined to confirm
that Raisa Gorbacheva, wife of the Soviet leader,
had visited the store and paid for a pair of ear-
rings with that ubiquitous symbol of Western life,
a credit card.
Now, it seems, confirmation is at hand. Washingtonian
magazine says in its forthcoming issue that the
purchase was made with an American Express gold
card, which is a cut above the one carried by most
Americans.
The question was put to Gayla Sangallo, an American
Express spokesman [sic] in New York: Can it be true
that the wife of the world's No. 1 Communist has an
American Express card? "I think she does," she said.
"But I don't know whether it's green or gold."
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rod williams | {ihnp4,dual}!ptsfa!ptsfc!rjw
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pacific bell | san ramon | californiaron@hpfcla.UUCP (12/30/85)
If you have read the book "Breaking With Moscow"
by Arkady Schvenchenko (sp?) you will find that the
"elite" of Soviet society having such things as credit cards
really isn't so outrageous. They are almost all greedy, self-serving
people at heart anyway and the system is manipulated as necessary to bring
those who can get it the most material possessions.
An excellent book by the way.
Ron Miller
"Show me a country where the newspapers are filled with good news
and I'll show you a country where the jails are filled with good people."
-<I forgot>
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at: {ihnp4}hpfcla!ronwiener@idacrd.UUCP (Matthew P Wiener) (01/10/86)
> If you have read the book "Breaking With Moscow" > by Arkady Schvenchenko (sp?) you will find that ... > An excellent book by the way. You should read the review of it in "The New Republic" this summer--it seems that he has not changed careers since defecting: disinformation then and disinformation now. From beginning to end, according to the review, (which I found rather convincing) the book is lies and more lies. It seems that the first draft five years before was too boring for the publishers, so he made it a little more interesting. :-)