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From Italy-News.com

ITALIAN PREMIER ACCUSES PRESS OF MISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN
In a joint press conference with Spain's prime minister Jose' Maria Aznar in Granada, premier Silvio Berlusconi lashed out against "a communist-type campaign of misinformation" mounted by the European and domestic press. Italy's prime minister said "I won't stand for this constant distortion of the truth much longer," confiding that he was thinking of making a tour to set things straight with certain newspapers that are "inspired by certain Italians." Mr. Berlusconi said that the massive bribery scandal of the early1990's, dubbed "Bribesville," was no less than a "civil war arranged by the Italian Communist Party." The premier's coalition partners, including Renato Schifani, the senate's Forza Italia leader, endorsed the statement of their center-right leader.

OPPOSITION INDIGNANT OVER BERLUSCONI'S ATTACK ON PRESS
The center-left opposition reacted with outrage over prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's statements made during a press conference, where he cited the "communist inspired" Italian press and characterized Operation Clean Hands as a "civil war." Spokespersons for the Margherita (Daisy) coalition said the verbal attack raised what he termed unprecedented concern because the prime minister's statement sounded more like that of "somebody who is trying to settle a score than a statesman who is in charge of a country's government." The Verdi (Green party) called the demagoguery a power frenzy. Italian Communists commented that the nation's leader might first learn Italy's history more thoroughly and then begin to explain to the rest of Europe about the conflict of his business interests. The Italian Communist Party which was directly attacked requested the intervention of the president of the Republic, Carlo Azegli Ciampi.

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