LARGE NUMBER OF CARS WITHOUT CRO LICENSE PLATES IN DANUBE REGION ( Editorial: --> 7421 )

( Editorial: --> 7421 ) VUKOVAR, Nov 1 (Hina) - Although the Un Transitional Asministration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srijem (UNTAES) had stipulated that all vehicles in the Croatian Danube river region of eastern Croatia were to have Croatian license plates as of November 1, there is still a large number of vehicles that have either invalid license plates or none at all. Members of the UNTAES and Transitional Police force (TPF) said they believed that all vehicles would have Croatian license plates within the next several days. Very few vehicles had had Croatian license plates a day ago, now three quarters of vehicles have them, they said. About a half of vehicles on the streets of Vukovar had Croatian license plates on Saturday. (hina) lm 011547 MET nov 97