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- <text id=93TT1643>
- <title>
- May 10, 1993: A Bad First Day
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 10, 1993 Ascent of a Woman: Hillary Clinton
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- WORLD, Page 23
- A Bad First Day
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Italy's new leader faces a crisis only hours after forming
- a government
- </p>
- <p> CARLO AZEGLIO CIAMPI, Italy's new prime minister, hit the
- ground running last week--and almost stayed there. Hours after
- swearing in his Cabinet, Ciampi faced his first crisis. The
- lower house of Parliament voted in a secret ballot to let former
- Prime Minister Bettino Craxi avoid trial on four of the most
- serious of six charges of corruption and election-law
- violations. The votes came either from his old cronies or from
- opposition legislators who want to force new elections.
- Thousands of people took to the streets in Rome, Milan, Genoa
- and other cities to protest that cowardly display of cynicism.
- Ciampi, 72, who has no party affiliation and who is an ex-
- Governor of the Bank of Italy, vowed to soldier on.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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