In a message dated 8/28/02 8:27:37 PM, owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com writes:
Chris Doss wrote:
>I think the majority of the money gained from G's speaking appearances
>in the West goes to financing the Green Cross International and the Social
>Democratic Party of Russia. He certainly can't get much money speaking
>in Russia, 'cause no one likes him enough to pay a lot. (I think almost all
>of the $5 million from the Pizza Hut ad went to the GCI.)
Yeah, Gorbachev said the money from the University of Florida gig was going to GCI. I was amused to see our notoriously conservative student government pay a socialist more than they paid another former president of a superpower, GHW Bush, who got around $75K, I think it was, for a half hour winge last year.
Jenny Brown