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UUK—mUlMIIIIIMW warn coffeehouse ,-s? guitar poetry theatre a total eclectic experience This Friday 8:00 at Rumours free for ail International Page 12 The Battalion Thursday, September21 Vol. 9 Diplomats expel Yugoslavia from U,1 p THE ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS - Security Council diplomats were laying plans Wednesday tor a new war crimes resolution to punish "ethnic cleansing" and attacks on civilians by warring parties in former Yugoslav republics. The pole that bore Yugoslavia's flag for decades was bare Wednesday morning after the U.N. General Assembly voted 127-6 the night before to expel it from the assembly for arming and encouraging rebel Serbs in Bosnia- Herzegovina. The flag was raised around noon — "provi sionally" — General Assembly spokesman Alexander Taukatch said. Yugoslav Premier Milan Panic has requested U.N. membership as a new state, but the 15- nation Security Council was not expected to review Yugoslavia's status until December. The flag-raising confusion reflected Yu goslavia's unclear status in the 179-member world body, which had not suspended a mem ber in its 47-year history. The Yugoslav desk was empty Wednesday, but the "Yugoslavia" nameplate remained. The wars that broke out as Yugoslavia disin tegrated have been characterized by cam paigns of terror against minority ethnic groups, followed by attacks, massacres and shelling of besieged cities. The war flared this year in Bosnia after fighting died down in Croatia. Slovenia and Macedonia seceded from Yugoslavia quietly, and only Serbia and Montenegro still belong. More than a million people have been dri ven from their homes as a result of the conflict and "ethnic cleansing" campaigns, in which roup is driven from am or another. It is the worst: one ethnic make room crisis in Europe since World War II. Reports by the United Nations have all groups — Serbs, Croats and Muslim; :n outlawed tactics. suer Many — including the U.S. govemj , n T , U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutrcsi ™ . and the U.N. Human Rights Commisi • a special envoy on Yugoslavia, formerp; Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki- cC out the Serbs as the chief aggressors. Mazowiecki has urged the creationofi ternational commission to investigatf crimes. Croatia and Bosnia have calledi ternational war crimes tribunals, and Gen has demanded that Serb leaders be triedii a 1948 U.N. resolution that pledgessigmi to prosecute those accused of genoride Play the Lottery at 1600 Texas Ave. S. 693-2627 (’olleye Station Mrs 1219 Texas Ave. 822-1042 Bryan Storm ravages Europe, flood causes 30 deaths COORS LIGHT Suitcases 24 pack 12 oz. Cans $10^9 NATURAL LIGHT MILLER All 24 pack 12 oz. 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No deaths were reported but highways and rail lines were flooded, and thousands of com muters were stranded. Italian authorities reported two people were missing when flash floods swept the Savona area on the coast north near the French border. French officials put the number of deaths in northern Vaucluse at 25, including five Belgians. Twen ty-one of the victims were killed in Vaison-la-Romaine, a town of 5,000 dating to Roman times, 25 miles north of Avignon. Two were killed in the town of Aubignon and two in Gigondas. Of the nearly 50 people report ed missing, five were Belgian, two German and one Dutch, offi cials in Avignon said. Elsewhere, a postman drowned in the Drome region and four people were killed in Ardeche, between Lyon and Avi gnon, including a young man who tried to save his father from the swollen Ardeche River, au thorities said. It wais the highest death toll from a storm in France since Oc tober 1958, when 36 people were killed by flooding in the neigh boring Card region. ^ In Vaison-la-Romaine, witness es recounted seeing camping vans being carried down the Ouveze River with people inside scream ing for help. A wall of water swept through the town about 4 p.m. Tuesday, causing damage as much as 50 feet above the normal level of the U.S. Task force searches for missing Vietnam vet THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DANANG, Vietnam — A little diplomacy and a lot of digging count for more than derring-do in the joint U.S.-Vietnamese ef fort to account for Americans missing from the Vietnam War. For four years, with little fan fare, Americans have been regu larly conducting searches, hack ing their way through jungles — real and bureaucratic — to collect evidence to the fates of the 1,658 servicemen unaccounted for from a war that ended 17 years ago. Members of the Pentagon's Joint Task Force-Full Accounting unit last week concluded their 19th joint mission with their Vietnamese counterparts. Fifty- one analysts, anthropologists, mortuary specialists, medics and ordnance experts from the Army, Navy and Air Force took part. The task force is the official U.S. body charged with account ing for the 2,266 Americans list ed as missing from the Indochi na War. Besides those lost in Vietnam, 519 are missing in Laos, 81 in Cambodia and eight in China. "The work is not cut-and- dried," says Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Gary Flanagan Ballinger, Texas, interview: the task force's compouri Hanoi. "It involves a lot of a and hard work on the partoii diers in the field." The U.S. effort was upgtii nine months ago, withaa crease in personnel froml 142, and a change in empi! from analysis to operations. Task force memberssar changes brought renewede gy to their work. Flanaganp poned his retirement beats now has hopes of seeing the: completed. The task force teams to three-fold mission. Investigi! teams, through interviews site surveys, pinpoint area; excavation; recovery teams e vate such spots, which arege ally crash sites and burialsp’ Intelligence specialists search so-called live sighting ports, the tantalizing account mysterious Westerners sig! in post-war Vietnam who might possibly be former pris ers-of-war. *" A Task force members awe ful to distinguish the diffe types of cases on which! work. In Vietnam, searchers hai list of more than 100 priori);.; es they are determined tons tigate by the end of January. Japan spem least amou! on educatio THE ASSOCIATED PRES! WASHINGTON America spends only an ave portion of its money oneii tion, compared with other ini trialized nations. Japan spends the smallest centage but gets the most res for its yen, a study of the w# 24 wealthiest industrial) democracies showed Wednes Denmark and Finland lea* spending public funds for ei tion, followed by Norway,C da, the Netherlands, Belgi® Luxembourg, said the ’ tion for Economic Cooped and Development, an interf ernmental agency in Paris : monitors the world's econom* The OECD report is theft! compare education among industrialized rw® and represents the most"- ranging and reliable set of i 1 national education indie*' ever published. SHOP DILLARD S MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY 10-9; SUNDAY 12-6; POST OAK MALL. HARVEY ROAD AT HIGHWAY 6 BYPASS. COLLEGE STATION. DILLARD'S AND ALL MAJOR CREDIT CARDS WELCOME. "We have never before comparable database" beca“* the differences both in educ* 1 systems and in methods of* collection, said Albert Tuij^' of the OECD Secretariat. Tuijnmann, who helped; pare the report, said in and view the countries began'' about five years ago to Stan"* ize definitions. They agreed to use 1 taking the national income dividing it by the entire p°; tion, and then adjusting' 5 what the money really buys This measure of thena 1 wealth of a country is kno"’ the gross domestic product According to the repo ;: United States is the wealthier dustrialized nation, follow*" Canada, Switzerland, and Luxembourg, Sweden and Germany. The pUS-WK vices oj Adir fairs of have n< tion of Billie h port. A pi would date th said.. "If tl ny) in t no prol spread would 1 War Off-Ca Sc Atte WA! Thursd; the fair mg a spotlig mocrat: him cor Supp tion cc with the a House probabl "The voted v families D-Tenn dential "Those tion chc ly value The 50 or rr 12 weel S] B] Un lems i and ec meeti Awan day e\ The includ edge . 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