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-fi "-m- irmiTw n-jumif nwrr-rnn. -m- y-gjuir-tij-f -itft iT Willi Qlnigi i Biiify -jrrlT'rfr jniilijlin i ix i nl' r'l liriil Wim 1 1 May 20, 1999 ANNE ARUNDEL Baltimore, Maryland 50 cents Mil mm Thursday Document said to detail Guatemalan military's abuses to be released A document that human rights officials say was taken from secret Guatemalan military files essentially a log of the kidnapping, torture and execution of Guatemalan men and women in the 1980s as part of an anti-leftist campaign is to be released today. Page 17a NationWorld Journal: Video pirates attack Hong Kong. Page 2a Street wins mayoral primary in Philadelphia. Page 3a Veterans urge more national cemeteries.

Page 4a Faulty planning blamed as disasters rise. Page 10a Quayle takes aim at "legal aristocracy." Page 12a U.N. nations propose easing Iraq sanctions. Page 13a Trial by jury under attack in Britain. Page 15a Opinion Waiting for inflation to rear its ugly head.

Page 18a Johns Hopkins and the living wage. Page 19a ArundelMaryland Developer urged to resign over land deal. Page 1b DNR workers still getting sick. Page 1b Bomb explodes under car on Baltimore street. Page 1b Man fatally shot by stranger at gas station.

Page 1b Olesker: Bell aide makes a "courtesy call." Page 1b a osevic could escape penalty Some fear diplomacy will lead to offer of war crimes immunity He 'has to responsible' By Tom Bowman and Mark Matthews BUN NATIONAL STAFF WASHINGTON War crimes prosecutors are using some of NATO's most secret intelligence to build cases against Yugoslavia's top political and military leaders. But there are concerns that the alliance's diplomatic deal-making will allow Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic to escape justice. While leaders in the United States, Russia and other countries work feverishly on a diplomatic plan to end the 8-week-old conflict, prosecutors with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague, Netherlands, are collecting information on the roles of Milosevic and his top commanders in atrocities in Kosovo. At some point, the two tracks are bound to converge, because they both involve Milosevic's hold on power. Nina Bang-Jensen of the Coalition for International Justice, a Washington-based human rights organization, says "our greatest fear" is that as part of a diplomatic solution to the conflict over Kosovo, the West will offer Milosevic "de facto immunity," under which he would avoid arrest or, if toppled from power, be allowed exile in a country that would refuse an arrest order from The Hague tribunal.

That's the worry at The Hague, even See War, 16a More inside Ground war Germany's chancellor declares that his country would block any attempt by NATO to mount ground attacks. Page 16a Mutiny: As many as 1,000 Serbian soldiers desert in Kosovo and drive home after mass antiwar protests in their hometowns. Page 16a Medium security: The fences at the Maryland Correctional Institution at Jessup, where a guard tower was left unstayed, could not stop two convicts determined to escape. Manhunt on for inmates" who scaled prison fences NANINH HAKTZKNBUSCH i SUN STAFF At large: Gregory Lee Lawrence (left), 39, was serving a life sentence for murder; and Byron Lester Smoot, 38, was serving 29 years for armed robbery. of the six surrounding the prison.

The entrance tower is staffed only when inmates have visitors. "Inmate movement within that area See Escape, 6a i .1 I Truck transmissions would be built near White Marsh Mall Former quarry site Broening Highway workers likely to be employed By Jay Apperson SDN STAFF General Motors Corp. has selected a depleted gravel quarry near Interstate 95 in White Marsh as the site of a new $250 million transmission manufacturing plant, government and real estate sources said yesterday. An announcement of Baltimore County's biggest economic development coup since credit card giant MBNA moved its regional operations to the county two years ago was expected to come from state and county officials today. Economic incentives, which have not been disclosed, were offered to land the project, government sources said.

Work on the plant, which would produce automatic transmissions for GM pickup trucks, could begin as early as summer. Company officials have said the plant would probably employ workers from GM's Broening Highway van assembly plant in Baltimore rather than hire new ones. The Broening Highway plant, which has 3,100 employees, could close after next year. GM's planned Allison Transmission plant, though it would create no jobs in the Baltimore region, could ensure that nearly 500 autoworkers remain employed in the area. But for all the chaos apparent in this zoo of activity, the track's security forces decided to leave the cage door open, by not guarding long sections of the perimeter until the day's 10th and featured race, the Preakness Stakes, second Jewel in the Triple Crown.

And it was through this opening that 22-year-old Lee Ferrell easily slipped shortly before 3 p.m. as the horses in the seventh race thundered around the curve. Smelling of alcohol and staggering slowly past one barrier after another, FerreU was a young man apparently in flight from his troubled past. Ferrell, who was abandoned by his biological father in South Korea at age 4, would tell police Saturday that he was intent on suicide, that he was taking two prescription drugs an anti-depressant and a medication for seizures -aLd a'td that See Pimlico, 7a Tw felons at large after Jessup escape; bloodhounds lose trail By Devon Spuroeon and Nancy A. Youssef SDN STAFF Hundreds of police officers were hunting last night for a murderer and an armed robber who escaped in broad dayUght from the medium-security state prison in Jessup by sliding past an unmanned watchtower and scaling two fences, one topped with razor wire.

Yesterday morning, blood was visible on the fence where Byron Lester Smoot, 38, and Gregory Lee Lawrence, 39, leaped to freedom. Smoot was found to be missing at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to prison officials, launching a manhunt for the first es- At least one United Auto Workers union official speculated that the decision to employ a significant portion of the Broening Highway plant's work force might be evidence of the company's plans for the southeast Baltimore plant. "Does this mean GM will close the plant?" asked Charles R. Alfred, president of UAW Local 239, which represents the 2,500 hourly workers at Broening Highway.

The availability of those experienced workers, along with the 65-acre White Marsh site's easy access to Interstate 95 and the relatively low development costs for the former Genstar quarry, sold GM on the site, a real estate source said. See GM, 8a US. again sues to tie Ohioan to Holocaust New eidenee alleged in 22-year campaign against Demjanjuk By Lyle Denniston SDN NATIONAL STAFF WASHINGTON The Clinton administration moved yesterday to restart one of the government's most famous Nazi-hunting cases the campaign begun 22 years ago to strip John Demjanjuk, a retired Ohio autoworker, of his U.S. citizenship and deport him as a war criminal. Demjanjuk, once labeled the notorious "Ivan the Terrible," a mass murderer at a Nazi death camp in Treblin-ka, Poland, has seen his case move repeatedly in and out of U.S.

courts. It returned to federal court in Cleveland yesterday as the Justice Department filed a new demand that he be denaturalized. At one point during the dispute's long legal journey, a federal appeals court in 1993 sharply rebuked Justice Department lawyers for "disregard of the truth" by withholding documents that Demjanjuk could have used to contest the charges. The controversy also made its way to Israel's Supreme Court, after a U.S. court ordered Demjanjuk sent to Israel for trial on war crimes charges.

He was found guilty and sentenced to death. But his conviction and death sentence were overturned in 1993 by the Israeli court, which said that newly available Soviet documents had cast doubt on the Ivan the Terrible Identification the key to his conviction. StUI, the ultimate fate of the 79-year-old Ohioan remains unsettled. He has been back in this country for more than five years and is living in the Cleveland suburb of Seven Hills. The Justice Department's new lawsuit, filed yesterday in U.S.

District Court in Cleveland, caje See Retrial, 9a Today NBC's decision to cancel the series "Homicide: Life on the Street" was a serious blow to the Maryland Film Office and its chief, Michael Styer (above). Page 1e Cowherd: Standing in line for "Star Wars." Page 1e Business Northrop Grumman to buy Laurel firm. Page 1c Fila to sell its wares on Internet. Page lc US Airways' top dogs forgo higher bonuses. Page lc Sports Angels score two in ninth, beat Orioles, 5-4.

Page Id Curtis displays his dad Mike's intensity. Page Id Heat's Mourning wins de-. fensive honors. Page 3d Live It's festival season at Maryland vineyards. Page It Weather Mostly sunny, mild.

High, 75; low, 51. Yesterday's high, 77; low, 65. Page 16b Bridge 19b Editorials 18a Classified 10b Horoscope 5e Comics 6e Lottery 2b Xword 19b, 7b Movies Live Deaths 9b Television 4e SunSpot The Sun on the Internet: http:www.sunspot.net The Sun's 163rd Year: Number 140 l08345ll00004 Pimlico infield parly, man's troubled past lead to near-tragedy High interest in tax auction capees from the Maryland Correctional Institution at Jessup since 1986. Security procedures and staffing at the prison are being reviewed, said Leonard A. Sipes spokesman for the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.

The unstaffed guard tower where the men escaped is next to the prison's main entrance. Prison officials said it was the only tower unstaffed HA1H8ION SUN BIAFF increasingly over the past decade they have been dominated by collection companies eager to profit from the debts of homepwners. These agencies bid ludicrous sums of money Baltimore sets the limit at $1 million so See Auction, 11a Houses: Collection agencies bid for lite right to go ajler homeowners for tax debt phis ajuieg 2k percent interest rate. By Tom Pelton SDN STAFF History of despair surfaces on track before Preakness By Dan Fesperman and' Peter Hermann SDN STAFF By midafternoon Saturday, the infield of Pimlico Race Course was an Island of anarchy 68,000 people queasily afloat on a sunny sea of bawdiness and booze. Shirtless men wrestled in the grass.

Whooping women removed their tops and climbed onto men's shoulders, cheered on by groping mobs. Wandering drunks vomited and passed out. Somewhere on the periphery, weU out of harm's way, horses thundered by every half-hour or so, supposedly the day's Aiain i lain attraction. i 1 Attentive: Mike Deluca of Fort Lauderdale, follows the reading of addresses of delinquent properties. Evelyn Cook, a 58-year-old emergency medical technician from East Baltimore, ventured into the city's largest-ever property tax auction, hoping to land a rowhouse to fix up for her granddaughter.

But she stormed out of the Baltimore Convention Center auction hall, muttering in rage and frustration. Every time she tried to bid on a $10,000 property, dozens of intense-looking guys with ceU phones and Encyclopaedia Britannica-sized three-ring binders would raise a forest of bright pink bid cards and inflate the priceo $1 millioa "It's a racket," Cook proclaimed. "Most of these guys work for the same company. And these properties can't be worth $1 million." While the city's annual tax sale has historically catered to people like Cook hoping to buy properties at A discount, -7. 1.