HOUSES RECONSTRUCTED IN CRNO

ZADAR, Feb 15 (Hina) - Houses ruined during Serb occupation in Crno, near Zadar, have started to be reconstructed. A Swiss humanitarian agency which specialises in providing aid for natural disasters, has taken on the housing reconstruction offering to repair the houses to a mininum standard. So far 52 owners can move back into their houses, and by the end of June another 124 houses expected to be completed. However, only 15 families who have been granted a loan for reconstruction, have retuned to their homes. The other families can also expect to receive loans for this purpose, a local official Franko Marnika said. He emphasized that Serb villagers who remained in the unoccupied territory of Croatia were also included in the reconstruction program. Three Serb houses have been already reconstructed. The houses of Serbs who defected to the Serb side, would not be rebuilt because the Swiss agency was only willing to reconstruct houses with their owners present. (Hina) jn rv sd 151705 MET feb 95