SERB STUDENTS RESUME CLASSES IN UN-ADMINISTERED OSIJEK COUNTY ( Editorial: --> 1490 )

( Editorial: --> 1490 ) OSIJEK, Nov 17 (Hina) - All 15 primary and four secondary schools in the UN-administered area of Osijek County resumed classes on Monday, the County Education Office said. Twenty primary and secondary schools out of a total of 22 in the UN- administered area of Vukovar County were working today, the Office said, adding that data for the other two were as yet unavailable. According to unofficial reports, pupils arrived to attend classes at the Stari Jankovci primary school in Orolik at which a bomb was thrown this morning, but were let go home. Last week, students of the ethnic Serb minority boycotted classes in the UN-administered areas of both Vukovar and Osijek Counties, at the request of their parents who demanded replacement of non- Serb headmasters with Serbs, speedier delivery of textbooks in the Serbian language, compliance with a five-year moratorium on teaching 1989-1997 history, and bilingual school documentation. On Saturday, a representative of Serb parents whose children had not attended school last week, announced that the boycott would be ended and that the children would resume going to school as of today. The announcement followed an agreement by the national committee for the restoration of inter-ethnic trust, the Croatian government and local Serbs, saying that schools would get bilingual documentation, bilingual inscriptions on school buildings, that translations of textbooks would be steeped up and that the moratorium on teaching 1989-1997 history would be complied with. (hina) ha vm jn 171831 MET nov 97