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From: rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Keep Chargin' (not really :-))
Message-ID: <494@ptsfc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Dec-85 17:30:02 EST
Article-I.D.: ptsfc.494
Posted: Fri Dec 27 17:30:02 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Dec-85 13:22:05 EST
Organization: Pacific Bell
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    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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