BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4841

HR-BULLETIN-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4841 HINA Zagreb 22 December 2002JANICA KOSTELIC WINS SLALOM, COMBINED EVENT IN LENZERHEIDELENZERHEIDE/ZAGREB, Dec 22 (Hina) - Janica Kostelic has garnered her second slalom victory of the season in the women's Alpine ski World Cup in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. Kostelic won with a time of one minute and 42.97 seconds, beating Finland's Tanja Poutiainen by 1.23 seconds and New Zealand's Claudia Riegler by 1.47 seconds. Kostelic also won the combined event. Today's slalom victory and yesterday's sixth time in the downhill have brought her another 200 points, extending her World Cup lead.OSIJEK HDZ DEMANDS THAT COUNTY PREFECT RESIGNOSIJEK, Dec 22 (Hina) - The Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) branches in Osijek-Baranja County and Osijek believe that county prefect Ladislav Bognar (a Social Democrat) must resign following a vote of no confidence given him by deputies at the county assembly two days ago, the HDZ branch in Osijek said. The