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1998 7 SPORTS FINAL NEWSSTAND 50 Mideast Pact Brings Peace A Step Close: Netanyahu, Arafat Trade Land For Security the premier for his "betrayal." It was a measure of the emotions surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian dispute that extremists on both sides did not wait to see the details of the pact before they unleashed their fury. A spokesman for Jewish settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, who fear the agreed-upon troop pullback would leave as many as 20 of their communities stranded in a sea of Arab control, called the accord "treason" and warned Netanyahu of "the Please see NETANYAHU, Page A9 Agreement Angers Extremists Among Israelis, Palestinians By LEE HOCKSTADER Washington Post JERUSALEM Sight unseen, the American-brokered peace deal reached in the Maryland woods triggered a political uproar in Israel Friday, with hard-liners in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition vowing to quit the government and topple "We will never go back to violence and confrontation. We will never leave the peace process," he said to applause from the audience. Netanyahu, referring to "our Palestinian partners," said, "Our world will be safer for our children and our neighbors' children." For the first time since the signing of the Oslo, Norway, accords in 1993, "we will see concrete and verifiable corn-Please see LONG, Page A9 Combined Wire Services WYE MILLS, Md. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Yass-tr Arafat signed a new Mideast peace pact Friday, clearing the way for negotiations on a permanent division of the Holy Land.

The agreement came after nine -flays of marathon bargaining and a 'dramatic seven-hour delay when Israel demanded the United States release convicted spy Jonathan Pollard. In an emotion-laden ceremony, Netanyahu and Arafat pledged to work for the well-being of each other's peoples. "This is the peace of courageous peoples," Arafat told the hurriedly assembled audience in the White House East Room. to Netanyahu as "my co-partner" in peace, he made an extraordinary pledge to end the violence. JONATHAN JAY POLLARD becomes a new chip in peace process.

0 Groups Call For Reform In Use Of Restraints Kings Of The City rrn I CM' Mental Health Providers React To Reports Of 142 Deaths In Facilities By ERIC M.WEISS Courant Staff Writer Organizations representing the nation's mental health care industry acknowledged Friday they need to study regulations and take action to reduce the number of restraint-related deaths in their facilities. Also Friday, the nation's leading health-care accreditation agency said it will alert its 18,000 facilities to a nationwide pattern of restraint deaths and suggest strategies to prevent them. The organizations representing hospitals, psychiatrists and mental health care facilities were short on specifics, saying only that they would study the issue in expectation of congressional hearings next year. The actions came in, the wake of a Courant series reporting that 142 people died while or shortly after being restrained or secluded in psychiatric hospitals, mental retardation facilities or group homes over the past 10 years. But because many cases go unreported, the number of these deaths may be 10 times higher, according to a statistical estimate commissioned by Please see GROUPS, Page A7 sj i A BRAD CLIFT THE HARTFORD COURANT LINING THE STREETS of lower Manhattan, millions of New York Yankees fans welcomed the players home from their World Series victory over the San Diego Padres with a ticker tape parade Friday along New York City's "Canyon of Heroes." Among those applauded at a ceremony in front of city hall at the end of the parade, above, is Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, the winning pitcher of the second game of the Series and a refugee who escaped from Cuba.

Please see stories, Page CI. After A Year, Disappearances Still Unsolved A Furby Kind Of Christmas Buyers Beware: Lines May Be Long For Seasons Hottest Toy INSIDE Fee Fight A federal appeals court Friday refused to extend a temporary ban on ATM surcharges. Page D1 Time Out A small but determined group is working on ending this whole spring-ahead, fall-back routine. City Officer, A Suspect, Resigns; Woman, Their Daughter Missing By JOHN SPRINGER and JOSH KOVNER Courant Staff Writers Nearly a year to the day since his girlfriend and their daughter disappeared, a Hartford police officer abruptly resigned Friday, adding yet another small twist in the investigation of a strange and brutal homicide. Officer Julio J.

Camacho of Cromwell has been a suspect in the disappearance of Rosa Delgado, 21, and Rose Camacho, 4, ever since their disappearance on Oct. 24, 1997, from a street corner in the city's Parkville section. Camacho was the last person seen with them. Authorities are still awaiting DNA test results that will confirm whether a headless, handless corpse, found by two duck hunters in a remote New Jersey Lake last Nov. 26.

is the body of Rosa Delgado. "I resigned today," Camacho, 38, told a police Please see AFTER, Page A9 who waited in line for two hours before the store opened at 10 a.m. Customers were limited to one Furby each at $29.99, tax and batteries not included. That meant wait, buy, wait again, buy again for customers shopping for more than one. "You wouldn't want to start a fight," said Shirley Ringstone of Manchester, who was buying the toys for granddaughters aged 6 and 8.

"It's already on their Christmas list," she said. "We tell them they've got to start early and no changes in midstream." Inside the store, Kay-Bee Toys Please see WHAT'S, Page A9 By VALERIE FINHOLM Courant Staff Writer They came. They waited. They bought. More than 100 parents and grandparents lined up Friday morning in front of Kay-Bee Toys in Buckland Hills Mall in Manchester, determined to snag a Furby.

A what? If you haven't heard of Furbys wait. The battery-powered talking fluffball is shaping up to be the "must-have" toy for Christmas 1998. "My daughter called and said you've got to go get four of them for me," said Theresa Shopey of Bristol, But until they're successful, you need to remember that daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, so turn your clock back one hour. CLOE POISSON THE HARTFORD COURANT 'u Page F1 IIIIEIIII 81024 Ann Landers F8 Connecticut B1 Legal Notices E8 Movies F5 People Business D1 Editorial A10 Lottery A2 Nation A8 Sports Classified E1 Faith Values F4 Motoring G1 Obituaries B4 Television F2 C1 F6 Duby McDowell looks at the final gubernatorial debate.

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