MORTAL REMAINS OF VLADKO MACEK INTERRED AT ZAGREB'S MIROGOJ CEMETE

CEMETE $ RY ZAGREB, May 15 (Hina) - The mortal remains of Vladko Macek, president of the Croatian Peasants' Party (HSS) before World War II, were today interred at Zagreb's Mirogoj cemetery next to the HSS founder, Stjepan Radic, in the presence of his widow Josipa Macek and son Andrej Macek. The ceremony was attended representatives of the Croatian Parliament, President Tudjman's envoy Ivan Valent, representatives of the HSS and members of the diplomatic corps. The last rites were performed by Zagreb's Cardinal Archbishop Franjo Kuharic, and the solemnity of the occasion was enhanced by the signing of a peasants' choir. Deputy President of the Croatian Parliament, Stjepan Radic, said that Macek "lived the philosophy of the Croatian peasant movement." "There was no hatred in his life except the hatred of violence and injustice," he said. "Only people with firm moral principles are able to be true to their values in complex and difficult circumstances, as he did," said the current HSS president Zlatko Tomcic. (hina) as 152207 MET may 96