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...more than $100 billion, Rome can no longer afford to wink at deadbeats. To embarrass delinquents, Finance Minister Rino Formica launched Operation Glass House, giving computerized lists of the past decade's 270,000 tax evaders to the press. The lists include such figures as leather-goods entrepreneur Roberto Gucci and Benito Mussolini's son Romano...
...drug king will also be able to attend to his creature comforts. The prison is large enough to accommodate 40, which is about how many of Escobar's confidants are expected to follow their monarch into entombment, like Qin- dynasty soldiers. Escobar's older brother Roberto was among the first to surrender late last week and join him in his as yet Spartan quarters. There is neither heating nor air conditioning, the four large dormitories are equipped with steel double-decker beds, and the recreation room is bare save for a television set. Escobar will undoubtedly use some...
...favor by handing out higher fees and benefits to the board. Says Graef Crystal, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley: "Wherever you find highly paid CEOs, you'll find highly paid directors. It's no accident." At Coca- Cola, CEO Roberto Goizueta earned $10.6 million in salary and stock in 1989, more than three times the average for CEOs of the 200 largest U.S. firms (his 1990 compensation: $11.2 million). His board members earned $75,000 in cash and benefits, a solid 70% above the $44,000 average. At ITT, chairman Rand...
...CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; $25). This handsome edition preserves every word of the original; only Roberto Innocenti's pictures are new. And what appealing images they are: the materializing ghost of Marley; the affable Cratchits; Scrooge flying over the rooftops of London; and above all, Tiny Tim offering his eternally appropriate Christmas message: "God Bless Us, Every...
...year, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, earned $32 million in theaters, twice as much as the most popular Japanese film. Of the 27 movies currently showing in Rio's cinemas, 21 are American. Overseas fans say they are drawn to the American spirit of independence and optimism. Says Roberto Fernandez Blanco, an Argentine businessman: "When you see an American work of art, you feel a breeze of freedom of expression." Thus the MCA deal strikes some Americans as another example of selling the goose instead of the golden eggs...