A BRIEF LOOK AT CROATIAN PRESS ON WEDNESDAY

ZAGREB, Nov 6 (Hina) - "On Sunday, November 6, the church committees of Catholic parishes in central Bosnia appealed for help to the Holy Father John Paul II. ... The church committees warned that the Islamic world, Arab countries, helped the Bosnian Moslems, that the Orthodox world, Russia, helped the Serbs, and that the Catholic West did not help in the same way the Bosnian Catholics," said a commentary in Wednesday's issue of Glas Koncila, a magazine of the Catholic Church in Croatia. According to the author of the commentary, "aid which is to be expected from the West, of which it should be persistently reminded and which should be its obligation, cannot and must not be the aid in conducting a religious war, even if it is a defensive one. The West should see for itself that the Croatian Catholics in Bosnia are not engaged in a religious war but in a struggle against brutal and inhuman aggression, which is also being shrouded in religious colours, but is in fact the gravest form of plundering, the trampling of all human and civil rights. However, the wording of appeals, which the West would understand and which it would listen to attentively, must be straightforward in order to avoid plunging into the style of the past times." The author warned that documented evidence of the preservation of symbols of other religions in the Croatian territories was of more importance than appeals for help in waging a religious war. 101320 MET nov 93