CHILDREN OF KILLED CRO SOLDIERS TO RECEIVE FINANCIAL AID

ZAGREB, Sept 4 (Hina) - Children of killed Croatian soldiers from Zagreb are to receive financial aid from the Zagreb city authorities. Assistant head of the Zagreb Office for education, culture and science, Zlatko Kackov, said at Wednesday's news conference that the Zagreb city authorities had authorized the payment of 1.916,400 kunas (about 538,000 German marks) from the current budgetary reserve for 1996. According to incomplete information of the Zagreb Office for education, culture and science, some 516 children should receive the financial aid, 135 of them were pre-school children, 279 attended primary schools, 90 attended secondary schools and 12 were students, Kackov said. According to the resolution on conditions for the use of the aid, children in kindergarten would receive 200 kunas monthly (56 DM). The constant financial aid for children in primary schools will amount to 400 kunas a month (112 DM), children in secondary schools will get 600 kunas monthly (168 DM) and the constant financial aid to students will amount to 700 (197 DM) monthly. (hina) lm jn 041358 MET sep 96