A BRIEF LOOK AT CROATIAN PRESS ON TUESDAY

ZAGREB, Feb 20 (Hina) - The Tuesday edition of the Zagreb-based daily VJESNIK includes an article on Croatia's economic priorities, under the headline: "Target No. 1 - 100,000 New Jobs." "Dayton Spirit in Rome" is the headline of a comment piece on a weekend peace summit in Rome between the presidents of Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia and international mediators on the implementation of the US-sponsored Dayton peace accord in Bosnia. Another Zagreb daily, VECERNJI LIST, runs a commentary on the latest agreement on the administrative setup of Bosnia's southern city of Mostar. The article, written by the paper's Bonn correspondent Nenad Ivankovic under the headline "Koschnik for the Last Time", says in part: "Mostar's European administration with (Hans) Koschnik at the head took an anti-Croat stance throughout the crisis, spreading misinformation and portraying local Croats, and to some extent the Zagreb government, as criminals, so that today it is very hard to talk about it as an administration of both sides in Mostar." Ivankovic goes on to say that one of the accusations most injurious to the Croat image in the West was a statement by Dragan Gasic, a spokesman for the EU administration in Mostar, that during a demonstration in Mostar earlier this month Croat protesters shot at Koschnik's bulletproof car and hit it with a dozen bullets. "Many Croats in Mostar believe that after the demonstration Gasic arranged for Koschnik's car to be sprayed with bullets in a garage so that later he could portray Croats as dangerous murderers," the article says. "Can the European administration of Mostar function with such ballast at all?" Ivankovic asks. (hina) vm mm 201111 MET feb 96