A BRIEF LOOK AT CROATIAN PRESS ON FRIDAY

VJESNIK, May 24 (Hina) - Today's VJESNIK devotes the front page to Philip Arnold's (UNTAES spokesman) a report on the process of demilitarisation of eastern Slavonia and the Croat-Moslem agreement on election procedures in Mostar. The editor-in-chief, Nenad Ivankovic, discusses recent demands from Belgrade and certain other power centres that Serbs living in the Croatian Danubian area should be granted autonomy. The editorial stressed the need to "remind Belgrade that the last time the Serbs upped the ante in this way (the Z-4 plan), it was followed by Operation Storm." A comment piece by Vesna Kusin discusses the choice of a memorial site to all Croats who gave their lives for the homeland in this century. Kusin rejected both Jasenovac and Medvedgrad - Jasenovac because it was too politically sensitive and Medvedgrad because it was unseemly to mix people paying their respects to the dead and picknickers feasting upon sandwiches and beer. Furthermore, the memorial site should be in the greater Zagreb area so as not to inconvenience foreign statesmen coming to lay wreaths. VECERNJI LIST announces a 2.43 percent cut in the price of electric power as of June 1. In the Nevenka Tudjman vs Feral Tribune libel suit, the plaintiff increased her indemnity claim to 3.5 million kuna. Ahead of the Karadzic-Mladic hearing in The Hague, Visnja Staresina discusses the "small likelihood that these two genocide suspects really get to the dock." The comment piece is headlined "Impotence in The Hague." (hina) jn as 241249 MET may 96