UNTAES BEGINS REMOVING CONTAINERS AT CHECKPOINTS

( Editorial: --> 2428 ) VUKOVAR, Jan 5 (Hina) - The UN deputy transitional administrator instructed that containers which accommodated policemen be removed from check-points along main roads entering the UN-administered part of eastern Croatia, UNTAES deputy spokesman Douglas Coffman said Monday. The containers will be removed from checkpoints along the following roads: Sarvas-Nemetin, Bilje-Klisa, Nustar-Brsadin and Vinkovci- Mirkovci, and several ancillary roads towards the UN-administered area, said Coffman. He added that police patrols would stay at the checkpoints, but in police vehicles. (hina) ha mm 051453 MET jan 98