A BRIEF LOOK AT CROATIAN PRESS ON WEDNESDAY

ZAGREB, Jan 4 (Hina) - Today's VECERNJI LIST carries a report on real wage and salary growth in 1994, stressing that under new tax legislation salaries may increase for up to 10 percent. The paper also carries an interview with Transport Minister Ivica Mudrinic, headlined "I Will Resign - Some Day." "The Transport Ministry has launched a nation-wide restructuring drive. It will involve big public companies such as Jadrolinija, Croatian Roads, Croatian Railways, Post and Telecommunications and others," Mudrinic said. Today's VJESNIK devotes most of its front page to yesterday's UN press conference in Zagreb, focused on the Zagreb-Lipovac highway and its expected opening to round-the-clock traffic. An article headlined "Half-Written Homework" discusses the results of the UNPROFOR mission in 1994. "The highway has made travel to Zagreb much easier for eastern Slavonians. It has also opened possibilities for UNPROFOR to stay on. Aware that most of its work last year was left undone, particularly when it comes to the reintegration of the UNPAs and the return of refugees, UNPROFOR is making token gestures in order to keep its job," the article says. (hina) as 041120 MET jan 95