BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH

HR-MILITARY-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3991HINA Zagreb, 12 May 2001SPLIT INCIDENT WAS NO EXCESS BUT ATTEMPTED COUP - MESICZAGREB, May 12 (Hina) - Speaking about an incident which took place in a southern military barracks last weekend, President Stipe Mesic told Feral Tribune weekly's latest issue it "was not an excess" but an "attempted coup." The interview quotes him as saying "the military was chosen to overthrow the authorities under its aegis." "That in Split was not an excess. Preparations for that attempted coup were long, and their aim was to provoke the army into dividing into those who want to bring back the political forces which lost the power and those who respect the norms of their profession and stand by the interests of the Croatian state. The organisers of the coup thought the latter were in the minority," Mesic said. He went on to assert "it is a scenario devised by specific political forces which want to change the auth