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Fridav. March 18, 1994
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Harding pleads guilty, forfeits skating career
The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. — In a quiet voice in a packed courtroom, Tonya Harding gave up her sport in exchange for staying out of prison.
Tonya Harding, national figure skating champion, became Tonya Harding, convicted felon. She pleaded guilty to conspiring to hinder prosecutors investigating the attack on her rival, Nancy Kerrigan, and resigned from the U.S. Figure Skating Association.
"I'd just like to say I'm really sorry I interfered," she told the judge on Wednesday.
Harding will get no jail time and will not be prosecuted in any other jurisdiction. But, at age 23, her competitive career is over, and $160,000 in fines and court posts won't leave much money from her lucrative deal with the television show "Inside Edition."
As part of the agreement with prosecutors, Harding must get a psychiatric evaluation and undergo counseling.
"I am committed to seeking professional help and turning my full attention to getting my personal life in order," Harding said. "This objective is more important than my figure skating."
Ending Harding's competitive skating career was important to deputy district attorney Norm Frink, who watched in frustration as she maneuvered in court to avoid discipline from the U.S. Olympic Committee and the USFSA.
! "I think it was a matter of justice," Frink said.
In her guilty plea, Harding admitted to conspiring with Gillooily and her bodyguard Shawn Eckardt to concoct a false alibi only hours after her return from the nationals on Jan. 10.
Left unresolved is the central question: Was Harding in on the plot?
Frank insists the answer is yes.
"There is obviously substantial evidence for her involvement in the conspiracy and the aiding and abetting of the assault," he said.
Israel offers Syria compromise
Clinton says both countries' leaders want peaceful ending The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is offering Syria a "territorial compromise" on the Golan Heights to rescue Mideast peace talks while rejecting Palestine Liberation Organization demands for tough new security measures.
As Rabin left Wednesday night for Rome to see Pope John Paul II, senior Clinton administration officials were making plans to brief PLO head Yasser Arafat and Syrian President Hafez Assad on the Israeli leader's two-day visit.
A senior U.S. official said the administration might propose to Damascus a "right time" to send negotiators back to Washington to resume the peace talks, which
broke down after a Jewish extremist opened fire FB. 25 on a Muslim mosque, killing at least 29 people
Arafat, meanwhile, is keeping an eye on the U.N. Security Council, hoping the United States would not block a resolution to send international peacekeepers to the West Bank and to promote Palestinian claims to East Jerusalem.
At this juncture the talks remain suspended. With Clinton at his side, Rabin said Israel would not alter the agreement it signed in September to gradually permit Palestinian "to conduct their own affairs" while maintaining Israeli military control over the West Bank.
Virtually every week Israel buries victims of terrorist attacks, Rabin said, ruling out Palestinian security demands prompted by Dr. Baruch Goldstein's deadly attack on the mosque in Hebron.
"We don't think it appropriate to wage new demands after every terror attack," Rabin said. "Securi-
tv is a two-way street."
He said Palestinian police could take charge in Gaza and Jericho after arrangements for self-rule are concluded. But, Rabin said, they would not take over the Israeli military's responsibility.
He then told Israeli reporters what he meant a "territorial compromise" on the Golan Heights, Syria, as a precondition for peace, is demanding return of the entire Golan, captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War and now home to thousands of Jews.
Taking a softer line on Syria, Rabin said, "We will stand ready to do what is required of us if the Syrians are ready to do what is required of them."
Clinton encouraged Rabin's overture to Syria as he worked to keep the tattered 28-month-old Mideast peace process going. He said he had talked to Assad a few days ago and was convinced "he wants to make peace with Israel."
Indian rebels threaten violence in Mexico
The Associated Press
LACANDON JUNGLE, Mexico — Mexico's Indian rebels will go back to war unless all their demands the government has agreed to are carried out, the guerrillas' chief smokers said from his sneeze stronghold.
The fundamental demand is the complete overhaul of the country's authoritarian political system leading to true democracy, the man known only as Subcomandante Marcos said in an interview Wednesday.
"If a peaceful transition [to democracy] is not guaranteed, then we will again see war as the only option," Marcos said as guerrillas from the Zapatita National Liberation Army strummed guitars and sang revolutionary songs at their mountaintop hideout.
The best the government can hope for is an "armed peace" until all promises of land reform and economic aid, roads, schools and hospitals for Mexico's impoverished Indian and peasant communities are met, he said.
That prospect could complicate this year's Aug. 21 presidential election.
Marcos said rebels would not sign a final treaty and would hold onto their armed positions in the mountains of the impoverished state of Chiapas until every
last road and school was built.
Marcos, smoking a pipe and wearing the black ski mask that has become his trademark, made the comments in an interview with The Associated Press and other reporters at an isolated Indian village. The identity of the village was kept confidential as a condition of the meeting.
Despite widespread guessing by government officials and the Mexican media, Marcos 'identity remains a mystery.
Several hundred representatives from jungle communities are gathering here to pore over government peace proposals designed to end the New Year's Day revolt that left at least 145 people dead before a government cease-fire on Jan. 12.
Access to the village, four hours over a rutted dirt road from the nearest army checkpoint, is restricted by roadblocks manned by armed, uniformed and well-disciplined guerrillas.
The revolt stunned the Salinas administration and the world. Rebels and a government peace envoy agreed to tentative peace proposals on March 2. But they must be approved by Zapatista supporters in remote Indian communities.
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