BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH

HR-WITNESS-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3738HINA Zagreb, September 2 2000PRESIDENT MESIC CONFIRMS HAVING RECEIVED HATE MAILVRBOVEC, Sept 2 (Hina) - Croatian President Stipe Mesic, who on Saturday attended with his associates a traditional culinary event in Vrbovec near Zagreb, confirmed he had received hate mail with assassination threats. Mesic was answering a reporter's question on whether it was true that he had received hate mail from the Croatian Revolutionary Fraternity organisation threatening that it would assassinate him. The President said he had received the hate mail via a fax machine in his office the day after the murder of Hague witness Milan Levar, who was killed in a bomb explosion in Gospic on August 28.Mesic said the mail threatened assassination with an explosive device. "I think that the Croatian Revolutionary Fraternity was dissolved after the establishment of Croatia's independence because it was no longer needed and