A BRIEF LOOK AT CROATIAN PRESS ON MONDAY

ZAGREB, May 20 (Hina) - The Zagreb-based daily VJESNIK runs a front-page story in its Monday edition on elections in the southwestern Bosnian city of Mostar. The article says that Mostar's European Union administration is apparently giving in to Bosnian Moslem pressure to put off the elections set for 31 May. In an article headlined "Who Has Put Croatia on Ice and Why?", Vjesnik's editor in chief argues that the postponement of Croatia's admission to the Council of Europe is aimed to force Croatia to make new concessions in Bosnia. The paper covers the first convention of the Federation of Croatian Disabled War Veterans (HVIDRA) in an article headlined "State Budget to Be Revised to HVIDRA's Benefit." Vjesnik includes an interview with Bosnian Federation Interior Minister Avdo Hebib, under the headline "I Can't Get Over the Fact that I Had to Release (breakaway Croatian Serb leader) Milan Martic." Another Zagreb-based daily VECERNJI LIST comments on a decision by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to postpone until mid-June the calling of elections in Bosnia, in an article headlined "Are Bosnian Elections Being Delayed?" European pre-election games in Mostar and Bosnia is the subject of a Vecernji List article headlined "Can Croats Trust Them?" "Secret of an Inexpensive House" is the headline of an article on reconstruction projects for the still occupied area of eastern Croatia. It says that of 98 bidders, 50 are prepared to build and equip a family house of 80 square metres in area for only 200,000 kuna (about DM 55,000). (hina) vm 201041 MET may 96