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A NEW YORK City firefighter was awarded $1 million by a New York state Supreme Court jury in Queens on Thursday on burns he suffered because the Fire Department had refused to equip him with fire-resistant overalls. . . . THE IRA began a three-day Christmas cease-fire today, but a leading supporter said the British-Irish peace initiative is too weak to persuade the IRA to end its armed campaign. . . . A GRENADE exploded today at a market in the southern Philippines, killing six people and wounding about 20. . . . A 17-YEAR-OLD boy fell to his death Thursday from a second-floor railing at a Spokane mall crowded with Christmas shoppers.