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DinonOcQiQ H2 Saturday, December 28, 1996 The Pantagraph 11 flEl'SlVATCII will sign an agreement ending Central America's last and longest war. "The struggle will change," an unarmed member of the rebels' urban faction shouted through a megaphone during Thursday's publicity act "It will no longer be an armed struggle, but a political one." After the signing, the estimated 3,000 remaining members of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity may actually face their toughest struggle in 36 years of armed conflict The transition from armed guerrillas to normal citizens will take millions of dollars, hundreds of people, and tons of hard work. The United Nations estimates that demobilization and disarmament alone will cost about $3 million. Once a viable military force seeking to topple the government, Guatemala's leftist rebels were decimated during the army's scorched-earth campaigns of the 1980s. With no military victory in sight, the war-weary rebels entered into peace talks with the government six years ago.

In Madrid earlier this month, the two sides approved a three-month plan for the remaining rebels to lay down their arms and return to society. Dozens of other vehicles were trapped on the bridge by the wreckage, and the soaring span across the mouth of Tampa Bay was closed in both directions. Motorists were forced to drive an extra 40 to 50 miles as a detour to skirt the bridge between Pinellas and Manatee counties. GRIFFITH, Ind. Doll goes haywire, chews on owner's hair A battery-operated Cabbage Patch Doll that can chew had to be taken apart piece by piece when it munched a 7-year-old girl's hair up to her scalp and wouldn't let go.

Sarah Stevens' aunt and the owner of the hair salon where the incident took place worked for 30 minutes Thursday to remove more than 20 screws, open the battery compartment and pull apart the mouth to free Sarah's blond hair. Sarah was shaken but unhurt. "I have a little headache," she said. The Cabbage Patch Snack Time Kids Doll is designed to chew automatically when plastic french fries or other items are placed in its mouth. It has no on-off switch.

Glenn Bozarth, a spokesman for the doll's maker, Mattel said 'that the toy is safe and that he knows of no other safety complaints about it. Bozarth said it is hard to imagine such a thing happening unless the child stuck her hair into the doll's mouth. Asked whether she wanted another one of the dolls, Sarah answered with an unequivocal "Yeah." From Pantagraph wire services 24-hour news information oh CITYLINE Call 829-9000, enter 9030 ANNAPOLIS, Md. License plates offend black leaders The battle over the Confederate flag has moved into Union territory. Maryland's motor-vehicle department has issued special license plates with the flag to about 70 members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, offending black leaders.

"Maryland doesn't need to go backwards with this Jim Crow mess," said state Sen. Larry Young, a Baltimore Democrat and chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus. Young and Hanley Norment, president of the state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said they will ask the state Motor Vehicle Administration to stop issuing the special plates. Patrick J. Griffin III, a Maryland member of the Sons of the Confederacy, said his organization is not racist and abhors the activities of groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.

The plates were approved two years ago and the agency received no complaints until this week, said Motor Vehicle Administration spokesman Jim Lang. "Now that we are aware of its being offensive, we certainly are going to take a look it," Lang said. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Pileup in fog kills one, injures 24 Thirty to 40 cars, trucks and vans collided in a string of chain-reaction accidents Friday on the foggy Sunshine Skyway Bridge, killing one person and injuring 24 others.

SEOUL, South Korea Unrest escalates in South Korea Hundreds of thousands of workers ignored threats of a police crackdown Friday, holding South Korea's largest strike ever to protest a new law that cuts organized labor's power. The government responded by pledging to prevent the strike from damaging South Korea's already ailing economy. Nearly 350,000 strikers altogether demanded that the government retract a labor bill the ruling party slipped through Parliament in a predawn session Thursday with no opposition members present The bill makes it easier for businesses to lay off workers, and strikers fear businesses will do just that The government said Friday that it would not allow the massive protests to further drag down the economy, which is facing a record $20 billion trade deficit this year. Prosecutors vowed to arrest union leaders. la the past, the government has used police to break up sit-ins blocking nonunion workers from the grounds of major export plants.

El GUATEMALA CITY Guatemalan rebels face difficult future In a final propaganda strike, eral dozen masked rebels swept into a bus station this week and called on Guatemalans to witness the signing of a historic peace accord. On Sunday, Guatemalan guerrilla and government representatives ing that restores time off for good behavior for nearly a third of that state's 64,000 prisoners. Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth had tried to rescind time off for many prisoners in response to the outcry over the scheduled release of a convicted child-killer who subsequently was slain in a prison yard. In a poll of the justices, the high court on Friday for the time being left intact a Florida Supreme Court decision handed down Oct. 10.

The Florida court overturned Butterworth's order rescinding good behavior credits. Because of overcrowded prisons, Florida in the 1980s started giving inmates a 33 percent reduction in sentence plus 20 days time off each month for following prison rules. Changing those rules after prisoners had already received their punishments violated their constitutional rights, the Florida court said. Under a law which took effect on that date, Florida prisoners must serve at least 85 percent of their sentence. Published daily and Sunday by The Chronicle Publishing Company.

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weekdays 5 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday 5:30 -10 a.m. Sunday The Pantagraph Readers' Guide8 Daughter's body found in NEW YORK Former guerrilla speaks out against IRA An Irish Republican Army guerrilla who became an informer for Britain was recently released from a British prison and is speaking out against the IRA. Sean O'Callaghan, who had been sentenced to multiple life terms for was a beautiful, young girl The parents are going to go through a tremendous grieving process." JonBenet, who was named Little Miss Colorado last year, was the daughter of John and Patricia "Patsy" Ramsey. Her father is president of Access Graphics, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corp.

Police said there was no indication the slaying was linked to the father's employment. Mrs. Ramsey called police earljj Thursday after she discovered a ransom note in her home, Eller said. About seven hours after police and FBI agents began a kidnapping investigation, they conducted a thorough search of the home, and a family member found the child's body, Eller said. He refused to say how she died.

On Friday, while an autopsy was' being performed, investigators looked for footprints and other clues around the house, which is in a close-knit, upscale neighborhood of this city about 30 miles north of Denver. BOULDER, Colo. (AP) The 6-year-old daughter of a business executive was found slain in the basement of her home hours after her mother discovered a ransom note indicating the girl had been kidnapped, Police were attempting to comply With the note's instructions when a family member found JonBenet Ramsey's body, which had been concealed. I John Eller, commander of the police detective division, said the ransom note demanded money and indicated there would be further instructions. No suspects had been identified 4nd Eller revealed few other details about the investigation.

a JonBenet's parents and their 10-year-old son, who also lives in the home, were taken to an undisclosed location, where a police officer remained with them "for security purposes," Eller said. V'lt's still a rather delicate and sensitive investigation, and we want to preserve as much of our potential evidence as we can," Eller said. "This two homicides and other acts of terrorism, attacked an effort by Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams to gain a larger role for the IRA's political wing in the peace process. "I wish I could be confident about the prospects for peace, but I have sat behind too many closed doors with too many of the present leadership to be conned by the smooth presentations," O'Callaghan said in an interview published today in The New York Times. O'Callaghan, 42, a former member of the Sinn Fein executive council, was involved in a 1983 IRA plot to kill Prince Charles and Princess Diana at a London rock concert.

The plot was foiled in part because of information he gave to British security forces. After serving eight years, he was released from prison Dec, 6 under a rarely used procedure requiring approval of the queen. WASHINGTON, D.C. Florida can't rescind time off for prisoners The Supreme Court refused to interfere in a Florida court's rul basement Christmas decorations, including red-and-white plastic candy canes, stood in patches of snow on the front yard. An elementary school student, JonBenet was a precocious, engaging child, family friends said.

Laurie Wagner, a vice president at Access Graphics, said JonBenet often played around her father's office. "She was a charming girl, an adorable child," Wagner said. "Everyone is concerned for the family." Mrs. Ramsey, a former Miss West Virginia, traveled around the country with JonBenet to attend her daughter's beauty contests. "They were so serious about this queen stuff, but they never put jany pressure on her," said Dee Dee Nelson-Schneider.

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