WORKERS IN E. CROATIA URGE DEMARCATING BORDER ON YUGOSLAVIA

TOVARNIK, April 17 (Hina) - Some 30 workers with Agro-Tovarnik, a company within the Vukovar-based VUPIK agribusiness, gathered in the eastern town of Tovarnik on Tuesday to draw the attention of state bodies to the Croatian-Yugoslav borderline demarcation issue and occasional incidents in the local border area. The workers gathered following an April 6 incident when unidentified persons assaulted two Agro-Tovarnik workers who were doing farm work near the Croatian-Yugoslav border, seized the workers' tractor and took it into Yugoslavia. Local police head Josip Grcanac told the gathered workers the police would increase patrols along the border to prevent further incidents. Security in the area, despite occasional incidents, is stable, he said. Municipal head Marinko Beljo briefed the workers about talks he recently held with representatives of the nearby Yugoslav municipality of Sid who condemned the April 6 incident. There is information to the effect that the culprits have been put under arrest and that the stolen tractor should be returned to Tovarnik shortly, said Beljo. He called on Croatian and Yugoslav authorities to launch activities bound to result in a precisely demarcated borderline. (hina) ha sb