31.   Japanese Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka resigned to take responsibility for the arrest of ministry bank inspectors on bribery charges.

32.   Japanese Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka resigned to take responsibility for the arrest of two ministry bank inspectors on bribery charges.

33.   Italy has no government, two of its former prime ministers are on trial, and a host of preeminent entrepreneurs face bribery charges.

34.   Judge Young also said he would drop a bribery charge and some fraud charges.

35.   Lachow told the jury that the bribery charges would be proved by cooperating witnesses as well as by documents including contracts and bank statements.

36.   MacDonald was in jail on bribery charges and also for inciting a deadly riot in which two of his followers died.

37.   Medecin was extradited to France last year and faces another trial on bribery charges.

38.   Mitsuzuka yesterday tendered his resignation to take responsibility for the arrest of two bank inspectors on bribery charges.

39.   Nassar was extradited to Atlanta in July, when he pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges.

40.   Once the bribery charges were dropped, the other charges held no legal weight, he ruled.