TOWN HEADS ASK PRINCIPAL TO EXPLAIN VUKOVAR SCHOOL INCIDENT

( Editorial: --> 4751 ) VUKOVAR, Oct 1 (Hina) - The principal of the 5th Vukovar Primary School has been asked to explain a chauvinistic incident which occurred in the school on Wednesday. The incident involved a fourteen-year old eighth grade student, of Serb nationality, who walked into the second grade classroom of students of Croat nationality and spat several times on the Croatian coat of arms, tore apart a poster of Pope John Paul II and insulted the children of Croatian returnees. The heads of the Vukovar town administration told a press conference on Thursday that they were concerned with the fact that the Organisation for Security and Coopration in Europe's (OSCE) Vukovar office had not accepted the complaint from the parents of a student who was insulted. According to information from the school's administration, only three second grade students of Croat nationality came to school escorted by their parents on Thursday. The parents of the other seven students had not sent their children to school. The 5th Vukovar Primary School is attended by 76 students of Croat and 681 of Serb nationality. (hina) it jn/mbr 012202 MET oct 98