ITALY . . . OFFICIAL SAYS P.M. TO RESIGN -- FOR NOW

A top Italian Cabinet official said today that beleaguered Prime Minister and media magnate Silvio Berlusconi will resign Wednesday because he doesn't have the parliamentary support to survive an imminent no-confidence vote. But Deputy Prime Minister Giuseppe Tatarella said the canny Berlusconi is planning the move to clear the way for new elections, staking his future on the belief that voters will sweep him back into office and silence his critics. "The government will resign tomorrow and tomorrow begins a long election campaign," Tatarella told state television, referring to Wednesday's parliamentary session. Berlusconi led his tenuous, three-coalition Forza Italy, or Let's Go, Italy, party to victory in March, largely on promises to clean up widespread government corruption. But the combination of anti-graft prosecutors focusing on bribery allegations involving Berlusconi companies and constant bickering within his coalition have brought the new government to the verge of disinteg