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...confess?'' the man asked again. I was silently reciting to myself the 23rd Psalm, ''The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want . . . '' ''Have you gone dumb?'' ''Confess!'' They were shouting. I lifted my head and said in a loud and firm voice, ''I'm not guilty! I have nothing to confess.'' The young man from the police pulled my arms behind my back and put the handcuffs on my wrists. Then we got into the Jeep and drove off into the dark streets...
...news of the Prime Minister's questioning is the latest blow to the Labour government. Blair's chief fundraiser and Middle East envoy Lord Levy-who was arrested in July over suspicion of selling honors--was arrested again on Jan. 30, this time on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Both Blair and Levy have denied any wrongdoing. A guide to the inquiry that has all the British classes chattering...
...British political parties nominate candidates for life peerages, which give recipients the title of lord or lady and allow them to sit in Britain's 748-member upper chamber of Parliament. Under a 1925 law, the sale of honors is illegal. Police are now attempting to find out if some peerages recommended since 2001 by all major parties were given in return for donations and secret loans. (More than 90 people have been questioned so far, including former Conservative leader Michael Howard.) They are also investigating whether another law, which says that all donations of more than $10,000 must...
...Police began to look into party finances after four businessmen nominated for peerages in 2005 were blocked by the House of Lords Appointments Commission. The body was concerned that the men had recently handed over large amounts of cash to the ruling Labour Party. A spokesman for one of the men, entrepreneur Sir Gulam Noon, claimed Noon had been encouraged by Blair's chief fundraiser Lord Levy to omit details of a $460,000 loan to the party from his application...
...published statement expressing the "serious concerns" of the other governments represented with what had happened - and a requirement that Britain explain itself more fully, this time in writing, before another meeting in mid- March. The British government won't comment on what happened in Paris , but Attorney General Lord Goldsmith told Parliament that dropping the case "does not mean that we are backing off in any way from our commitment to tackling international corruption...