A BRIEF LOOK AT CROATIAN PRESS ON THURSDAY

ZAGREB, Feb 28 (Hina) - 'Fate of Imprisoned and Missing Must Be Found Out', reads the headline of a 'VJESNIK' report on a session of the Croatian Parliament House of Representatives which started yesterday. 'Vice Premier Ivica Kostovic, refusing certain proposals from the Opposition, supported the normalisation of relations with Belgrade as the only way to find the answer as to what happened to the Croatian missing and imprisoned soldiers and civilians', the paper says. 'Vicious Plan of Serb Hegemony' reads the headline of an article by Mirko Sajler on the new Serb colonization of eastern Slavonia. Ivan Sabic writes about the suspension of sanctions imposed on the Bosnian Serbs in an article headlined 'Reward for (Non)Cooperation'. 'Despite the agreement the Croatian oil company INA and the Yugoslav Jugopetrol have signed, the Serbs are still stealing the Croatian oil', warns journalist Zeljko Buksa. The daily 'VECERNJI LIST' warns that 29 February is the last day for taxes to be registered. Tax administration would work longer than usual today. 'Who can stop the Serbs from fleeing before the 'Turks' (this time, however, towards the East)?. They themselves could do it. Are they, though, conscious of the fact that by digging up the bones of their dead they are actually pulling out the roots of their presence from the area they once used to live in? Are they mature enough to be able to see the consequences of their dramatic and drastic actions?, Mirko Galic asks in a commentary piece headlined 'New Ethnic Cleansing'. 'Vecernji list' also brings a report on yesterday's session of the Parliament House of Representatives under the headline 'Truth About Missing - Precondition Of Normalisation'. 'We don't want a divided city', says the head of Uskoplje municipality, Zdravko Bicanic, adding 'We don't want to build walls on former separation lines, but a unified city'. (hina) rm 291138 MET feb 96