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The British government may not look at it that way. Stonehouse's public admission that he intended to evade his financial responsibilities has left him wide open for legal proceedings in Britain. At the same time, Labor associates from his Walsall North constituency called for his resignation from Parliament. Yet, even as he returned last week to his red brick, barbed-wire detention center to await a decision on his request to stay in Australia, he managed a composure and self-assurance that friends recognized as vintage Stonehouse: "It's not up to the standards of Conrad Hilton," he quipped. "But it's improving."