21.   Berlusconi, addressing a packed lower house of parliament at key television-viewing time, pugnaciously refused to divest himself of his business holdings under political pressure.

22.   Buffeted by a conflict-of-interest scandal, a defiant Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Tuesday rejected calls to divest himself of his vast business holdings.

23.   The prime minister told a backed house during a key debate in the Chamber of Deputies that he would not divest himself of his business holdings under political pressure.