WAR-SEPARATED FAMILIES MEET AT U.N. CHECKPOINT IN EAST CROATIA

OSIJEK, March 6 (Hina) - A meeting of families separated by war was held at the UN Nemetin-Sarvas checkpoint in eastern Croatia on Wednesday. Sixty-two people came from the occupied area and 68 from elsewhere in Croatia. This was the eighth such meeting and the first one covered by several television crews, the head of the government office for restoration of Croatian authority in the occupied Danubian area, Mirko Tankosic, told reporters. Tankosic said that the Croatian government would like such meetings to be held twice a week. (hina) vm mm 061851 MET mar 96