BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO.3770 HINA ZAGREB, 3 OCTOBER 2000

HR-POLITICS-BULLETIN-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO.3770 HINA ZAGREB, 3 OCTOBER 2000 CROATIAN PRESIDENT: COUP IS ABSOLUTELY OUT OF QUESTIONZAGREB, Oct 3 (Hina) - Any coup is out of question in Croatia, as it would be doomed to failure. This is only a matter of political raising of tensions with to some extent serious and more radical rhetoric, Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said in Zagreb on Tuesday night upon his return from a two-day official visit to Bulgaria. Mesic said so, responding to reporters' question how much harm could be done to Croatia owing to Bulgarian journalists' speculations about possibilities of coup d'etat in Croatia following some reports in the latest issue of the Croatian weekly 'Nacional'. 'Nacional' said in the issue which appeared on the news-stands today that another 20 generals were intent on joining last week's letter by 12 generals who criticised the criminalisation of the Homeland Defence War, Croatia's early 1990s war of independence from