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THE WEEK, Page 21BUSINESSEt Cetera
PLASTIC RELIEF
Citibank, largest issuer of credit cards in the U.S.,
announced that as of June 1 it will reward its best customers
with lower credit-card interest rates -- as little as 13.9% for
Preferred Members. Other banks will probably follow, taking the
bite out of congressional complaints about high rates and
starting a war that consumers can win.
A TITAN FELLED
Italy's biggest postwar financial scandal brought down an
industrial titan when Carlo De Benedetti, chairman of Olivetti,
was sentenced to six years and four months in prison for
complicity in the 1982 collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, Italy's
largest private bank. He promises an appeal.