WORLD IN BRIEF : BRITAIN : Owner of Harrods Cleared of Blackmail
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Prosecutors cleared the owner of Harrods department store of trying to blackmail Prime Minister John Major in a scandal that forced two of his ministers to resign last month. Major suggested that Mohamed al Fayed wanted a government report that criticized him withdrawn in exchange for suppressing news that he paid the ministers to ask questions in Parliament.
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