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THIRD EDITION A6 THE PANTAGRAPH, Wednesday, Sept. 23. 1992 Yugoslavia booted from assembly U.N. delegates hope to force Belgrade to make peace the General It requires Yugoslavia once a mm T7 9 I UNITED NATIONS (AP) Delegates voted overwhelmingly yesterday to expel Yugoslavia from the General A s-sembly in a new attempt to pressure the Belgrade government to make peace him to address the 179-nation General Assembly before the vote. "We have cooperated with the United Nations in every way we could," said Panic.

"We will continue to do so regardless of the action you take here today." Then, moving to quickly restore his country to the family of nations. Panic formally requested U.N. membership on behalf of the new Yugoslavia. Any readmission would have to be approved by the Security Council, and members such as the United States and Britain will insist that Belgrade has complied with peace accords before offering their support The draft resolution says Yugoslavia "cannot continue automatically the membership of the former" Yugoslav state "and that it shall not participate in the work of six-republic federation to apply for U.N. membership as a new nation, and resolves to reconsider the issue by year's end.

In introducing the Britain's ambassador, Sir David Hannay, said it was not "a punitive measure nor one designed to un-, dermine the peace process." It was designed, he said, to deny Yugoslavia's right to inherit the seat' the federation held before its breakup. Yugoslavia's principal ally in the United Nations, Russia, has sought to put a positive spin on the action. Moscow contends the Belgrade government will not be cut off dip- lomatically at the United The United States, however, contends Yugoslavia will lose Its U.N. membership, and therefore" would not retain any of the accompanying privileges. its severity, going beyond the revocation of South Africa's voting rights in the General Assembly in 1974.

The 15-nation Security Council already has passed tough economic sanctions against Yugoslavia after determining the Serbs were mostly to blame for the bloody, 15-month-old conflict in Croatia and Bosnia, which has left more than 20,000 dead. The assembly rejected a last-minute appeal from Premier Milan Panic, a Serbian-born U.S. citizen. Panic pleaded for his government to be permitted to remain in the family of nations, to strengthen his hand against his hard-line Serb nationalist opponents. European diplomats, seeking to keep channels open for peace negotiations and to aid Panic, whom they see as a moderate, did permit Milan Panic Officials plead innocent to misconduct MARION Four Williamson County Regional Airport Authority members pleaded innocent yesterday to official misconduct charges.

Carl Planinc, Jim Gentile, Robert Duncan and John McNeill are accused of using authority funds to pay for meals, insurance and to take family members on business trips. The four were indicted last week after a 16-month grand jury investigation. A trial date has not been set. East St. Louis to finalize settlement EAST ST.

LOUIS A meeting is scheduled today to finalize a settlement between the city and its police dispatchers, who had staged a three-day sickout. The sickout won the 17 dispatchers, who returned to work Monday night, a city promise of raises and better working conditions. with its neighbors in the shattered Balkan The assembly voted 127-6 to ban Yugoslavia, now consisting only of Serbia and Montenegro, from voting and speaking in the General Assembly and its committees. The action was unprecedented in Sudan treason executions confirmed over the death of Andrew Tombe, 34, an employee of the U.S. Agency for International Development who was executed on charges of treason.

The U.S. government believes Tombe was innocent, he said. Snyder 'said the administration also has received information that a second AID employee, Baudouin Tally, also has been executed. WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) The State Department confirmed yesterday that Sudanese authorities have executed a Sudanese national employed by the U.S.

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President Bush established a record for successful vetoes yesterday when the Senate failed to override his objections to registering voters when they apply for drivers' licenses or government benefits. The 62-38 vote gave Bush his 31st straight veto victory against Congress, surpassing Lyndon B. Johnson's unbroken string of 30 successful vetoes from late 1963 to 1968. Woman accused of stalking Bush motorcade DENVER A 33-year-old legal secretary came close to firing on President Bush's motorcade last week and considered Sarah Jane Moore, who attempted to kill President Ford in 1975, her role model, authorities said. Deborah L.

Butler was being held without bond yesterday on a two-count federal complaint accusing her of threatening the president and attempted assassination. If convicted, she could be sentenced to life in prison. Butler was arrested Monday at a psychiatric hospital where she sought treatment. She is accused of stalking Bush while he was on a campaign visit in suburban Englewood Sept. 15.

U.S. weighs flight ban over Bosnia WASHINGTON, D.C. The United States is considering taking part in a proposed ban on military flights over Bosnia and Herzegovina like the one that is now imposed over parts of Iraq, a senior administration official said yesterday. President Bush has made no decision on the proposal, the official said. It would represent a significant expansion of U.S.

military involvement in the Balkan war, which is now limited to supporting the shipment of relief supplies. Negotiators OK $2.1 billion for space station WASHINGTON, D.C. House-Senate negotiators agreed yesterday to provide $2.1 billion next year for space station Freedom, giving President Bush nearly all he sought for the planned orbiting laboratory. The agreement spelled the end of another year of efforts by station opponents to kill a program that they consider too expensive and of little scientific value. The manned craft is expected to cost $40 billion to build and $100 billion more to operate over its planned 30-year life.

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Bly Official: No U.S. POWs remain alive In Russia MOSCOW The Russian co-chairman of a bilateral commission investigating missing U.S. war prisoners said yesterday that no American POWs remain alive in his country. The statement by Gen. Dmitri Volkogonov, who heads the Russian side of the joint commission with the United States, was the most definitive so far on the fate of hundreds of Americans missing here since World War II.

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Estranged wife admits to killing husband OTTAWA A 22-year-old Spring Valley man was dead of a stab wound Monday afternoon and police say they have a confession from his estranged wife that she wielded the knife. The woman is a patient at Ottawa Community Hospital. She has not been charged. The incident occurred south of Illinois 6 between Ottawa and Utica. The LaSalle County Sheriffs Department received a call from the woman stating she had just killed her husband.

Police say the man forced his way into his estranged wife's residence, violating an order of protection, sexually assaulted her and then forced her into a car and made her drive to Ottawa. En route, an altercation occurred and the woman grabbed the hunting knife and stabbed him, police reports say. The investigation is continuing. WLPO (1220 AM), LaSall Business owner's rape trial gets under way CHAMPAIGN A 23-year-old woman took the witness stand yesterday and accused a Champaign businessman of rape. The woman testified that her former boss, 28-year-old Jim Liautaud, the owner of Jimmy John's Sandwich Shop, forced her to have sex with him at his apartment in April.

She alleged the rape happened even though she repeatedly told him to stop and that he was hurting her. Yesterday, Liautaud's defense argued she was a consenting partner and later filed charged when she felt guilty about the incident Liautaud owns Jimmy John's sandwich shops in Campustown at the University of Illinois and also near the campuses of Northwestern and Eastern Illinois universities. WICD (Channel 15) Champaign Due to overwhelming response on disposable lenses, we're repeating this very special event. DOOR COFFEES Dr. J.

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