LATE PRESIDENT'S SON, EX HDZ OFFICIAL ANNOUNCE THEY WILL SUE MESIC FOR SLANDER

ZAGREB, June 11 (Hina) - Stjepan Tudjman and Milan Kovac have announcedthat they are going to sue President Stjepan Mesic for slander.Tudjman, a son of the late president Franjo Tudjman, and Kovac, aformer member of Parliament and a former member of the CroatianDemocratic Union (HDZ), told a news conference in Zagreb on Fridaythat they would initiate legal action against Mesic, who accused themof embezzling some of the funds raised by the Croatian diaspora in theearly 1990s for the defence of Croatia.