A BRIEF LOOK AT CROATIAN PRESS ON THURSDAY

ZAGREB, May 18 (Hina) - President Tudjman's visit to Bonn, talks with Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel, were "useful and successful," today's VJESNIK assesses. "The Zagreb-based Association of War Veterans has proposed that centres for veterans and their families be established all over Croatia. The main task of such centres would be to discover, prevent and treat the posttraumatic stress syndrome, which is much more common among veterans than we anticipated," says an article by Marika Toth, headlined "War Hurts Even When There Are No Wounds To Be Seen." A comment piece headlined "Equal Charges" analyses the work of the Hague War-Crimes Tribunal. VECERNJI LIST carries a comment piece by Mirko Galic, headlined "Living With Differences." "In 1991, when the Croats fled before Serb tanks and soldiery, there was no doubt that they must flee. To say they had been driven away describes the process more accurately than just saying that they fled. Are the Serbs being driven away from Western Slavonia? Or are they leaving out of fear, because they are not quite "clean" or maybe because of the propaganda filling them up with tales of Ustasha massacres?," Galic argues. "People in western Slavonia should be made to feel as free citizens of the Republic of Croatia," says Member of Parliament Mirko Tankosic, of Serbian ethnic background, in an interview with VECERNJI LIST, headlined "Confidence Is Won By Truth." (hina) mm as 181214 MET may 95