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TUESDAY IS MfWTAWA 1 1st SPECIAL SECTIO iWorldNews If. 0 SUNNY WARM with highs near 90 degrees today and Wednesday. No precipitation is expected either day. HIGH 88 LOW 48 nn 5M Lu k.J VkUiJUJ Uiii-4 buai on W3 But Yugoslav premier warns intervention means 'disaster' Here are the latest developments concerning the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Milan Panic, the U.S. businessman who became premier of Yugoslavia in July, told The Associated Press that Western military intervention in Bosnia "could trigger a full-scale guerrilla war in Bosnia and a second Vietnam in the Balkans." The U.N.

Human Rights Commission in Geneva agreed to discuss alleged abuses in Bosnia, including allegations of murder and rape at Serb-run detention camps. U.N. diplomats said U.S., British and French envoys met with officials from Belgium to decide the final wording of a draft resolution on delivery of aid to Bosnia. Diplomats said the draft calls for all means necessary -implying force to transport humanitarian assistance. The French Foreign Ministry said the resolution would likely be put before the Security Council on Wednesday.

Heavy machine gun and mortar fire rocked aread north of Sarajevo early Monday. Serbs opposed to Bosnia's independence have captured about two-thirds of Bosnia's territory and have surrounded Sarajevo. In Washington, a Pentagon source said the Air Force has sent 12 cargo-handling specialists to Zagreb airport, marking the first use of U.S. troops on the ground in the U.N. relief effort in former Yugoslavia.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -The United States, Britain and France agreed Monday on a draft resolution authorizing military force to protect aid shipments in war-ravaged Bosnia. But Yugoslavia's premier warned Western intervention could lead to a "second Vietnam." The draft resolution, circulated to the 15-membcr Security Council, also demands unimpeded access by the International Committee of the Red Cross to all camps, prisons and detention cen ters where allegations of torture and killings have been raised. A vote was expected Wednesday. Bosnia's U.N. ambassador, Muhamed Sacirbey, welcomed the resolution, but said it failed to say anything about halting aggression and "ethnic cleansing" by Serbian nationalists in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where more than five months of ethnic war has claimed (See FORCE, Page A-6) Montana po! Tourney fender 1: shows Bush trailing Clinton Headlines from national and international sources GOP assembles platform HOUSTON Republicans called for repeal of a 1 990 tax hike signed by President Bush and stood firm Monday against pressure to soften the party stance against abortion as delegates worked on their 1992 platform.

Page A3 Officers plead Innocent LOS ANGELES Four police officers whose acquittals on most state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King touched off a convulsion of rioting pleaded innocent Monday to federal civil rights charges. Page A3 Money talks in Moscow MOSCOW Slava Mikhailov is trying to privatize his music store, and he is fed up with lines, forms and delays. He's says he's now ready to grease a bureaucratic palm "as soon as I find out whom to bribe." Page A6 Oregon kills nuclear plant PORTLAND. Ore. Utility officials voted Monday to close the state's only nuclear power plant by 1 996, 1 5 years before its license expires, rather than replace steam generators that have leaky tubes.

Page A2 By JOHN STROMNES of the Missoulian Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas has swooped ahead of President George Bush in the race for Montana's three presidential electoral votes, according to a poll commissioned by the Missoulian and other Lee Enterprises papers in Montana. The poll was conducted Aug. 4-5 and the presidential race results were released Monday. Clinton, who leads Bush by 12 percent points, also has increased in favorable name recognition by 5 frA Whom would you vote for? April 1992 G3 August 1992 George Bush Fm i.

4 37 Bill Clinton -h 41 Undecided 112 I J314 Dow Jones Industrials if 5.40 Source: Political Media Research, Inc. To 3,337.58 points over the past four months, Opinion while Bush's favorable name recognition dropped 7 points in the same period. During the period between the two polls, Democrats held their nominating convention, Clinton selected popular Sen. Al Gore as his running mate, and H. Ross Perot, the independent almost-a-candidate billionaire from Texas, dropped out of the race.

If the election had been held when the poll (See CUNTON, Page A-6) MICHAEL GALLACHERMluoulian THE WESTERN REGIONAL Senior Little League Tournament Is being played In Missoula this week and that means good baseball and some wonderful pins. Robert Cole of Missoula sported an assortment of his favorite Little League pins Monday afternoon at the Spurgin Road fields In hopes of doing some serious trading. The tournament Includes teams from Nevada, Hawaii and California. See Page D-3 for a wrap-up of Monday's games. Boorish Jn the court Clarence Thomas was elevated from federal judge to Supreme Court Justice last year despite allegations of sexual harassment, much to the chagrin of many Americans.

As it turns out, though, Thomas' attitudes toward women may be more common in the courtroom than we'd like to think. Page A4 Vorhauer mansion to go on the auction block By JIM LUDWICK of the Missoulian Montana sured the yacht, paid Washington $890,000 as an insurance settlement after the yacht fire, but the agreement called for Washington to return the money if he collected enough from Vorhauer. Albany is fighting Vorhauer in federal court at Seattle in a case scheduled for trial this month. Albany has alleged that the yacht fire "was not an accidental occurrence." In addition, Albany claims Vorhauer inappropriately failed to disclose certain information to insurance underwriters. Missoula County District Judge Douglas Harkin ordered that a foreclosure sale could not occur until the court ruled on issues raised by Dennis Washington, who also had a claim against the property.

Washington had been trying to foreclose on the home, which was collateral for a yacht that Vorhauer had bought from Washington. Vorhauer fell behind in his payments for the boat. It was destroyed by fire last summer in Seattle. In an order signed on Friday, Harkin ruled that Washington is entitled to a judgment of nearly $1.3 million. Harkin ordered that the Salmon Lake mansion be sold at a public auction by the Missoula County sheriff, after the sheriff gives proper notice of the time and place of the auction.

Union Bank will be first in line for the proceeds. Washington will be second, according to Harkin's order. Albany Insurance Co. might get $890,000 of the Washington money; Albany, which in month or more before the sale occurs. Vorhauer is a scientist and businessman who amassed a fortune when he developed the Today contraceptive sponge.

He unsuccessfully sougnt the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 1990. Union Bank won a judgment against Vorhauer after the bank argued that he owed $644,000, plus interest, related to a promissory note that was backed by a mortgage on the home. However, A court order has cleared the way for a foreclosure sale of Bruce Vorhauer's island mansion. The mansion at Salmon Lake will be sold for Vorhauer's creditors primarily the Union Bank of Orange, and Missoula businessman Dennis Washington.

"I really don't have any particular comment," Vorhauer's attorney Dexter Dclaney said Monday. He said it will be a Election challenge HELENA Rep. Ron Marlenee, challenged Democratic Rep. Pat Williams on Monday to give up his political career if Congress fails to cut in half the federal deficit by 1996. Page B1 Attorney general denies request for Iraq probe un to shun Cancer-conscious cops want radar restrictions HEALTOfitness 4 F.

STEPPING BACK Doctor looks at rehabilitation from the eyes of the patient Page CI I C3 Advice "Every prosecutor reviewing this matter at every level of the (Justice) department is of the view that the criteria for invoking the statute are not present here," said Barr. Rep. Charles E. Schumer, chairman of a House Judiciary subcommittee, accused Barr of "attempting to sweep the whole issue under the rug. It is hard to imagine him making such a decision were this not an election year and were the president not 20 points behind in the polls." House Banking Committee Chairman Henry B.

Gonzalez of Texas called Barry's decision "a desperate effort" to protect the administration. "The attorney general is the giant boulder holding the administration's stonewall together," Gonzalez said. Barr said he explained in a letter to the Judiciary Committee why he was blocking the independent investigation and he urged the committee to make the letter3 public. He said he is forbidden by law from disclosing the full B3 Around Missoula WASHINGTON (AP) -Attorney General William P. Barr on Monday denied a congressional request for an independent counsel's probe of alleged Bush administration misconduct in its policy toward Iraq before the Persian Gulf wtr.

Barr said there is not enough hard, specific evidence to warrant an independent investigation and said the Justice Department is qualified to handle the matter. Democrats immediately accused Barr of a cover-up aimed at helping a politically ailing President Bush. Barr said a month-old request by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee "contains no specific information or allegation concerning any person. It also does not specify any conduct that is alleged to constitute a crime." He said the committee's "vague and general allegations" are not enough to trigger the independent counsel law, enacted in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal 20 years ago. WASHINGTON (AP) Police officers told Congress on Monday they fear the radar guns they use to catch speeders are giving them cancer, but scientists differed on whether there is any evidence of a link.

The officers complained the government isn't doing enough to warn troopers or to investigate the medical effects of microwave radiation emitted by the traffic radar guns. "Hand-held police radar guns should be restricted or banned," said Thomas Malcolm, a police officer in Windsor Locks, who blames his testicular cancer on using a radar gun for 15 years. "No warning came with my radar gun telling me that this type of radiation has been shown to cause all types of health problems including cancer," Malcolm said. "If I had been an informed user I could have helped protect myself. I am not a scientist but a victim of a lack of communication and rcg (See RADAR, Page A-6) C4 i J.

i i Classified B4 Comics D4 Market B3 Movies B2 Obituaries C3 Television Opinion Associated Prvsa SEN. JOSEPH LIEBERMAN, left, is shown a traffic radar gun by former police officer Thomas Malcolm, Monday on Capitol Hill. A Senate panel held hearings on the possible harmful effects of traffic radar guns on the health of policemen. Western Montana FIRE DANGER VERY HIGH.