THIRD EDITION OF 'CROATIAN SPRING' BY MIKO TRIPALO PRESENTED

ZAGREB, Dec 14 (Hina) - The third, updated edition of the book "Croatian Spring" by Miko Tripalo was presented in Zagreb on Friday. Present at the ceremony were the family, friends and admirers of the Croatian politician and lawyer, including his closest associate from 1971, Savka Dabcevic-Kucar. Speaking about the author and the book, President Stjepan Mesic said the book "Croatian Spring" shed light on the mosaic of a time which gave a progressive core of Croatia's policy, including Miko Tripalo, Savka Dabcevic-Kucar, Pero Pirker, and Ivan Sibl, and grounds for later events. Croatian Spring was a movement for democratisation, Europesation, equality and "even accounts", which left deep traces important for the creation of the Croatian state in 1990, said Mesic and added that besides the force opting for the Croatian state, it also "seeded" a constitutional and legal possibility by which the world could recognise us. The Croatian politician and lawyer Miko Tripalo (Sinj, 1926 - Zagreb, 1995) was a member of the narrowest Croatian and Yugoslav political leadership, and a central figure of Croatian Spring, a massive national and democratic movement in Croatia of thirty years ago. Tripalo was removed from public life and forced to a long-term silence in Dec. 1971. (hina) np sb