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===== AIM Morning NEWS for Thursday, September 28, 2000 =====
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SIK'S FINAL DECISION - SECOND PRESINCT
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BELGRADE, September 28, 2000 (Politika)

Federal Electoral Commission (SIK) held a final session,
presided by Borivoje Vukicevic, where final results of the federal
presidential elections where concluded.

Based on the total data from 10.673 polling places with
5.053.428 voters, 69,7% of the total number of 7.249.831 registered
voters. 2.68% of votes were invalid.

Presidential candidates won the following number of votes:
Miodrag Vidojkovic 46.421, 0.92%; dr Vojislav Kostunica 2.474.392,
48.96%; Slobodan Milosevic 1.951.761, 38.62%; Vojislav Mihailovic
146.585, 2.90%; Tomislav Nikolic 292.759, 5.79%

Based on this data SIK decided that none of the presidential
candidates made the majority of the votes in the first precinct and
that according to the law second precinct will be held. In the second
precinct candidates will be dr Vojislav Kostunica and Slobodan
Milosevic.

SIK scheduled the second precinct for Sunday, October 8, 2000.


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DOS MEETINGS IN CITIES OVER SERBIA
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BELGRADE, September 28, 2000 (BETA)

Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) held a political rally in
cities over Serbia last night. A crow estimated at about a couple
hundred thousand people gathered in the central Square in Belgrade,
where among speakers on stage was Vojislav Kostunica, DOS
presidential candidate, and many other persons from Yugoslav cultural
and public life. DOS official electoral results were announced saying
Vojislav Kostunica won the presidential elections in the first
precinct.

Meetings were also held in Novi Sad, Nis, Bor, Leskovac,
Mladenovac, Krusevac, Kragujevac, Zajecar, Pirot and Zagubica.


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SPO SCHEDULES SPECIAL SESSION
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BELGRADE, September 28, 2000 (I-Net)

Borivoje Borovic, member of the Serbian Renewal Movement's (SPO)
leadership, stated that he and Milan Mikovic, chief of the SPO
representative group in the Chamber of the Republic, scheduled a
session of their representative group, on which, beside other things,
the decision would be made in what way the SPO would participate in
the process which would make the republic's government resign.

Before that reports said that Vuk Draskovic, the leader of the
Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) invited yesterday the Serbian Radical
Party (SRS) to schedule the session of the Serbian Parliament on
which "with the help of SPO members of parliament" they would
"overthrow the Serbian Government".


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OPPOSITION CONTROLLERS BARRED FROM SIK
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BELGRADE, September 28, 2000 (Danas)

A group of 50 Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) elections
controllers were barred from access to electoral material - ballots
and polling records - in Federal Electoral Commission yesterday.

Entrance to SIK, located in the Federal Parliament, is allowed
only to one authorized DOS representative, Nebojsa Bakarec,
Democratic Party law department chief, who stayed in SIK chambers
only for about 15 minutes and thereby, as he stated, "could not
control the millions of ballots and tens of thousands of records".


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'SIK LEGAL EXPERT RESIGNS' - DANAS
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BELGRADE, September 28, 2000 (I-Net)

As Belgrade daily "Danas" unofficially learns from well informed
sources close to the Federal Election Commission (SIK), Bojan Pudar,
legal expert and deputy of the SIK secretary, resigned to this
position.


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JIRI DIENSTBIER VISITS YUGOSLAVIA
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BELGRADE, September 28, 2000 (BETA)

Special UN envoy for human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina
(BiH), the Republic of Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
(FRY) Jiri Dienstbier will visit Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
today.


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KFOR VEHICLE HITS TEENAGER
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PRISTINA, September 28, 2000 (KFOR)

Early yesterday evening in Multinational Brigade West, KFOR Task
Force Sauro reported that during a funeral procession near Gornji
Streoc a truck driven by a KFOR soldier accidentally struck a 14 year
old boy who had been running beside the truck.

The injured boy was transported to the Pec civilian hospital for
treatment.


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VIOLENCE FEARED AS CASE AGAINST SUHARTO DISMISSED
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JAKARTA, Indonesia, September 28, 2000 (CBC)

The case against former Indonesian president Suharto has been
dismissed. Suharto will not have to face prosecution after a court
decided he is too ill to stand trial.

The already sputtering trial was to have resumed Thursday
morning, but for the third time the accused did not appear. A team of
independent, court-appointed doctors told the court three recent
strokes left Suharto mentally incapable of standing the rigours of a
long court case.

Shortly after the decision was announced, soldiers fired over
the heads of demonstrators who marched by the hundreds toward
Suharto's home in central Jakarta. Police fired tear gas and beat up
several students and residents nearby. Police were hit by molotov
cocktails, witnesses said.

Suharto, 79, had been accused of embezzling $550 million, mostly
from charities he ran - which only accounts for a fraction of the
billions Suharto and his family are accused of stealing from the
people of Indonesia during his 32-year rule.


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CHINESE MINE BLAST KILLS 118
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SCHUICHENG, China, September 28, 2000 (CBC)

More than 100 miners were killed in a Chinese coal mine
explosion Wednesday night.

An official at the Muchonggou Coal Mine in Shuicheng, a city in
Guizhou province said 118 were killed when a buildup of gas exploded.
No one is reported missing as 123 miners were rescued.

This is just the latest mining disaster in a system of coal
mines that has killed more than 2,700 this year alone.

The Muchonggou mine, located 2,150 kilometres southwest of
Shanghai, is a state-owned mine. Most of the smaller mines, where a
majority of the deadly accidents happen, are unlicensed. While
officials have said there was a buildup of gas, the actual cause of
the blast hasn't been determined.


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WHEN SLIME IS NOT SO THICK
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NAGOYA, Japan, September 28, 2000 (BBC)

Scientists have discovered that a single-celled organism can
negotiate the shortest way through a maze. Pieces of slime mould, an
amoeba-like organism, were enticed through a 30-square-centimetre
(five-square-inch) maze by the prospect of food at the end of the
puzzle. It means that some of the lowliest creatures in the plant and
animal kingdoms, such as slime and amoeba, may not be as primitive as
once thought.

The researchers believe the slime is exhibiting some form of
primitive intelligence.

Toshiyuki Nakagaki of the Bio-Mimetic Control Research Centre,
Nagoya, Japan, placed pieces of the slime mould Physarum polycephalum
in an agar gel maze comprising four possible routes. Normally, the
slime spreads out its network of tube-like 'legs', called
pseudopodia, to fill all the available space. But when two pieces of
food were placed at separate exit points in the labyrinth, the
organism squeezed its entire body between the two nutrients. It
adopted the shortest possible route, effectively solving the puzzle.

"This remarkable process of cellular computation implies that
cellular materials can show a primitive intelligence," the science
team stated.


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THE NEWS
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Morning news edited by Nikola Stan

AIM, Belgrade, September 28, 2000 13:30


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