NADA SAKIC TO BE EXTRADITED TO CROATIA IN THREE WEEKS - ATTORNEY

( Editorial: --> 3193 ) ZAGREB, 12 Aug (Hina) - Nada Sakic could be extradited to Croatia in three weeks, Sakic's court-appointed attorney Branko Seric said in Monday night Croatian Television late news broadcast "Motrista". According to Seric, the possibility of Sakic's extradition to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has been ruled out. Nada Sakic, the wife of World War II commander of the Jasenovac concentration camp Dinko Sakic, has been charged by the Zagreb County Court with war crimes against civil population. She is charged along with other Ustasha officers with maltreating and causing the deaths of a number of inmates of the Stara Gradiska camp where she worked from the end of 1942 to 1945 as a member of Ustasha units. Sakic was arrested on 24 July in the Argentinean resort of Santa Teresita near Buenos Aires. In line with a court ruling, Sakic is under house arrest since she suffers from Parkinson's and other diseases. Apart from Croatia, Yugoslavia has also submitted an extradition request. (hina) rml 121059 MET aug 98