41.   The main issue over the next few weeks will be the degree to which the new agency would be allowed to investigate corruption on its own.

42.   This cleared the way for newly liberated news outlets to investigate corruption on every level.

43.   Police have arrested a suspect in the bomb assassination of a newspaper reporter who was investigating army corruption, officials said Wednesday.

44.   Parliament on Wednesday voted to investigate corruption allegations raised against former Prime Minister Ciller by her rivals from the pro-Islamic Welfare Party.

45.   President Boris Yeltsin fired two top army generals Thursday, including one suspended after the assassination in October of a reporter investigating military corruption.

46.   Prominent lawyers and human rights activists investigating government corruption said Friday they will look into his dealings and turn over evidence of wrongdoing to the attorney general.

47.   A journalist who was investigating institutional corruption in Vietnam has been arrested and charged with revealing state secrets, his publisher said Monday.

48.   A Palestinian legislative panel investigating government corruption Tuesday urged Yasser Arafat to dismiss his Cabinet and recommended charges be filed against some ministers.

49.   A Vietnamese war veteran has called on the Communist Party and National Assembly to investigate alleged corruption by seven senior party and government officials.

50.   All this frustrates Colombian Prosecutor General Alfonso Valdivieso, who has tried to stiffen punishment for smugglers and is investigating alleged corruption of Congress by cocaine dealers.