RADIO 101 HOLDS NEWS CONFERENCE

ZAGREB, Dec 9 (Hina) - The editor-in-chief of the Zagreb local radio station Radio 101, Zrinka Vrabec-Mojzes, said on Monday that the Radio 101 did not re-broadcast the programme of the Voice of America, but that it had been given special permission to choose some parts from the programme in the Croatian language of the Voice of America to relay it again. At a news conference held by the radio station in Zagreb following the Saturday's assertions about Radio 101 expressed at the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) Head Committee session, Vrabec- Mojzes said that the Voice of America had lent to the Radio 101 digital equipment for receiving signals of the American radio, and that the Radio 101 had to give it back as soon as it ceased re- broadcasting the parts of the Voice of America programme. She rejected claims that the radio station had received financial assistance from abroad and stressed that the radio station had been only financed by selling advertising time. Radio 101 representatives said that they did the same as the other media in Croatia that relayed broadcasts of the Voice of America or other foreign media. Vrabec-Mojzes added that the Radio 101 was "anticipating repression" in the further period. (hina) jn mš 092101 MET dec 96