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...probe has claimed a number of prominent victims. Last week Giorgio La Malfa, leader of the small but influential Republican Party that bills itself as "the party of honest people," resigned after being notified he was under criminal investigation. Earlier, the chief financial officer for Fiat, Italy's largest private employer, was arrested along with another top executive. Both maintain their innocence. Ex-Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, who has received eight notifications that he is suspected of corruption offenses, was forced out last month as head of the Italian Socialist Party. Rome, Milan and Naples are without mayors because...
...House narrowly rejected the balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution by a vote of 280 to 153, just nine votes shy of the required two-thirds majority. The vote was a rebuff to President Bush, who has staked his dwindling prestige on amending the Constitution to mandate by fiat a balanced budget -- the holy grail of government that has eluded Presidents and legislators for the past 23 years...
...Detroit at his own expense to do free shows for the unemployed and the homeless); with a capital L in that he doesn't really cotton to conservative Republicans ("I mean, these kids are 26, they're Republicans, and they own a Lincoln Town Car. Not even a Fiat...
...HAND receives $1500 in direct funds from PSP plus support form a variety of houses. So instead of scrambling for funds to run programs in competition with others HAND is financed by fiat of the administration...
...What we need and what the administration isunwilling to give is a binding written agreement,"he added. "We've come to agreements with pastadministrators and seen them change...we need aguarantee that [an agreement] won't be undone byan administrative fiat...