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Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 93, president during Italian corruption scandal

By Colleen Barry

 |  Associated Press  

  January 30, 2012

Mr. Scalfaro, a past president of Italy who held the post during the sweeping corruption scandal of the early 1990s that reshaped the country’s post-war political landscape, died yesterday.

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