CROATIAN TROOPS WITHDRAW IN U.N. SECTOR SOUTH

ZADAR, April 8 (Hina) - In most parts of UN Sector South Croatian army troops withdrew a thousand metres from the disengagement line by 9 a.m. Friday, according to a Russia-brokered ceasefire agreement between the Croatian government and rebel Serb auhorities in Zagreb on 29 March. A spokesman for the Croatian army command in Split, Major Ivan Zelic, told a Zadar press conference that Croatian army troops were still pulling out of the Gospic area, in the northern part of the Sector. He said they would have withdrawn by 4 p.m. today. Major Zelic went on to say that UNPROFOR had set up two more crossing points in Sector South, at Jasenice and Pakovo Selo, and that another two would open at Zemunik and Peruca. 081556 MET apr 94