A BRIEF LOOK AT CROATIAN PRESS ON FRIDAY

ZAGREB, Feb 24 (Hina) - Today's VJESNIK carries on its front page an article on yesterday's session of the Croatian government. "The old, 30 percent lower prices for the purchase of socially-owned apartments will be valid for another three months," Vjesnik says. "War Fever in Vojnic" is the headline of an interview with an American journalist and correspondent for the "Time" magazine, Alexandra Stiglmayer. Stiglmayer said that people in Vojnic, a Serb-held town about 80 km south of Zagreb, could not believe that UNPROFOR was leaving. The daily continues with the report by UN Special Rapporteur Tadeusz Mazowiecki on the media situation in former Yugoslavia. Today's coverage concentrated on the situation of the media in Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia. It said that the majority of media in Serbia and Montenegro, including some apparently independent media, still propagated nationalist messages denying rights to other nations. The Serbian media played a negative role in the wars in Bosnia and Croatia, provoking national hatred, the report said. An article headlined "Union Blessed by Belgrade" deals with the military union of Bosnian Serbs and rebel Croatian Serbs. In its coverage of a recent visit to Zagreb by Serbian Orthodox Metropolitan Jovan, the other Zagreb-based daily, VECERNJI LIST, reports on relations between the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church. "By purchasing some 500 million dollars of the former Yugoslavia's debt on a secondary market, Serbia's has done a bad business deal and Croatia has no intentions of repaying such debts," says a Vecernji List comment piece headlined "Bankers' Fancy-Dress Ball Fails." (Hina) mar rv vm 241323 MET feb 95