Ivory Coast's commercial capital, Abidjan, has 
returned to normal following a two-day military 
uprising over a pay dispute.  Correspondent Purnell 
Murdock reports from Abidjan.

Abidjan's city streets bustled as people 
hurried to work.  Street vendors hawked their wares at 
traffic lights, and banks and other businesses re-
opened. 

Cars, taxis, and garbage trucks added to the morning 
rush-hour crush and soldiers appeared to have 
dismantled road barricades and returned to their 
barracks.

Government officials and mutinous soldiers announced 
late Wednesday that they had reached a compromise to 
end the two-day pay dispute.  But no details have 
emerged.

Military ruler, Robert Guei, blamed the nation's 
political parties for instigating the unrest and 
warned such attempts would backfire.

Ivory Coast's Minister of Communication, Henri Cesar 
Sama Damalan, warned on state television that the 
government would use deadly force to maintain order.   


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