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DATE: TUESDAY, April 27, 1993                   TAG: 9304270111
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: ROME                                LENGTH: Short

HEAD OF CENTRAL BANK PICKED TO LEAD ITALY

Italy's president on Monday chose a respected banker to form a new government and rebuild a political system discredited by corruption and scandal.

The selection of Carlo Ciampi, the country's central bank chief, demonstrates that Italy may indeed be on the road to breaking with its past of party-dominated government and pork-barrel politics.

If he can form a government, he would be the first premier from outside the world of the traditional parties since World War II. - Associated Press

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