1.   Meeting Friday, the Cabinet approved a draft bill for parliamentary approval that would allow corruption suspects to be held in custody before trial.

2.   The decree exempted corruption suspects from preventive detention and brought an immediate storm of protest.

3.   The government replaced the decree on Friday with a draft bill that limits the use of preventive detention but allows investigators to detain corruption suspects.

4.   Di Pietro had often used similar dramatic moves in pursuing corruption suspects.

5.   Dini has backed Scalfaro in the dispute, whose issues include the widespread use of jailings to encourage corruption suspects to confess and implicate others.

6.   German lawmakers flew to Frankfurt on Tuesday to question a French corruption suspect about a slush fund scandal involving former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and his party.

7.   German lawmakers on Tuesday questioned a French corruption suspect about his knowledge of a slush fund scandal involving former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and his party.

8.   Last summer, then Premier Silvio Berlusconi was forced to revoke a decree banning pre-indictment jailings for corruption suspects.

9.   Some other well-known corruption suspects are now trying to strike deals with prosecutors.

10.   The accusations included allegations Di Pietro pressured people to give him large loans and violated the rights of corruption suspects.