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...wiry, sharp-faced Piero Bassetti, who, at 34, not only runs his family's sizable, 140-year-old textile business, but also is one of Italy's most active and controversial politicians. As a member of Milan's city council and the city assessor, Bassetti is a chief mover behind a massive redevelopment project that will reshape and expand Milan at a cost of $650 million over the next four years and an eventual cost of $1.5 billion...
...apartment buildings and acreage near by. In general, churches proper enjoy tax exemption on some or all of their holdings, but budget-strapped mayors and state legislatures are eyeing the things that are God's as a source of needed revenue. In Minneapolis, for example, the city assessor is trying to get $1,120 in back taxes from a bowling alley operated by a Roman Catholic parish. After the threat of a court fight, the American Baptist Convention recently agreed to pay Upper Merion township, Pennsylvania, $18,000 a year in assessments on its property there...
...value of the haul was estimated at about $1,200,000, and the thieves were obviously connoisseurs. They not only took the best; they also knew which paintings were too delicate to be cut from their frames and would have to be taken frame and all. Said one insurance assessor working on the case: "I would call this a masterpiece of crime...
Windfall? In Topeka, Kans., after spading a hole in his backyard for use as a tornado hideaway, Grist Haydon was visited by a deputy tax assessor, who placed a value of $150 on the diggings...
...keeping their names secret in order to hold them to their present assignments (which they would have to give up if publicly appointed). Most likely candidates: Monsignor Enrico Dante, Prefect of Pontifical Ceremonies; Monsignor Antonio Samore, Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs; Monsignor Acacio Coussa, Assessor for the Holy Congregation for the Oriental Church; and Monsignor Giuseppe Ferretto, Secretary of the Sacred College. The foreign favorites: Monsignor Juan Landázuri Ricketts, Archbishop of Lima, and Monsignor Jose Newton de Almeida Batista, Archbishop of Brasilia. (The Pope may have decided to withhold Batista's formal elevation...