51.   Last week, in the latest scandal, two top managers of the fifth-largest bank were charged with fraud.

52.   On Saturday, Chirac reiterated that he would not testify in the latest scandal because of his special role as president.

53.   President Vaclav Havel, still recovering after being hospitalized earlier this month with pneumonia, has not taken sides in the latest scandal.

54.   Sakamaki resigned as Nomura president in March after the latest scandal surfaced.

55.   Tesar and Prochazka were charged on Tuesday in the latest scandal to hit Czech finance.

56.   The affair is the latest scandal to hit the church following allegations that its bishop of Limassol was involved in fraud running to millions of dollars.

57.   The business of Nomura and Dai-Ichi Kangyo already has suffered from the latest scandal.

58.   The arrests come as just the latest scandal involving questionable ties between civil servants in Japan and private companies eager to do business with the government.

59.   The Bharatiya Janata Party has threatened to use the latest scandal as a weapon against the new government, putting it on the defensive early in its regime.

60.   The latest scandal linking extreme rightists to the military was revealed Saturday by Der Spiegel magazine.