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Sex strike for peace urged

BOGOTA, Colombia Taking a page from ancient Greek drama, Colombia's
military commander is asking the lovers of this country's guerrillas to go
on strike.

No sex until a peace treaty is signed. "I think that by December they'll be
tamed and they'll propose peace out of desperation," Gen. Manuel Jose
Bonett said tongueincheek Thursday.

The idea comes from the satirist Aristophanes, in whose Lysistrata Greek
women decide to deny their mates sex until they quit fighting the
Peloponnesian War. Eventually, the Greek men could stand it no longer and
signed a peace treaty.

Bonett said his proposed sex strike would not apply to police or government
soldiers. "We're not the agents of violence," he said.