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                                           NEWS: EVENING BULLETIN

           SUMMIT OF GENERALS AT THE SHIP "GEORGE WASHINGTON"

Naples, Feb 19, 1996 (Press TWRA) - Commander of IFOR and Afsouth
(NATO south wing), the US Adm. L. Smith called the meeting of the
joint military commission for the Dayton agreement implementation
to be held at the US plane carrier "Washington" in the Adriatic.
     Participants at the meeting are: head of the HVO HQ, gen.
Zivko Budimir, commander of the B-H army HQ general Rasim Delic
and Serb general Zdravko Tolimir. /end/ A.S.

          VLADO GOTOVAC - NEW CHAIRMAN OF HSLS

Zagreb, Feb 19, 1996 (Press TWRA) - At the 6th HSLS (Croatian
Social-Liberal Party) conference, Vlado Gotovac was elected the
Party's chairman, led from 1989-199O by Slavko Goldstein and from
199O-1996 by Drazen Budisa. Vice-chairmen are Jozo Rados, Goran
Granic, Ivo Skrabalo and Zlatko Kramaric. Party's secretary gen.
Bozo Kovacevic is replaced by retired Croatian army gen. Karl
Gorinsek whom Franjo Tudjman removed three years ago due to a
military operation in Baranja. He is ethnic Slovenian, Croatian
citizen. He led defence of Croatian eastern part with Osijek as
the biggest town, whose mayor is Kramaric. Goran Granic (brother
of Croatian foreign minister Mate Granic) was a candidate for the
Zagreb mayor declined by president Tudjman. New candidate is Jozo
Rados about whom Tudjman has not made any statement yet.
     After some leading HSLS members left the Party to join the
leading HDZ (Ivan Bozicevic, Mate Mestrovic, Damir Zoric),
"outstanding liberals" (Mladen Vilfan, Goranko Fizulic, Bozo
Kovacevic) criticized the chairman Budisa as yielding to those
still HSLS members but close to deserters in HDZ. Election of
Gotovac, Rados, Granic, Skrabalo, Kramaric and Gorinsek should
preserve the unity in the partition-undermined HSLS.
     In the speech to the Conference, Drazen Budisa, at the end
of his chairman's mandate announced that in spring 1994, HDZ and
Tudjman offered him privileges, access to the state's secrets and
two-party system in Croatia if he left the oppositional coalition
which nearly won majority in the Parliament after dissidents of
HDZ, led by Mesic & Manolic, founded the opposition party HND.
     The Conference resolution states: Though it was written
in the Constitution more than five years ago, Croatia is not a
democratic & social state. (...) President of the Republic and of
HDZ concentrates all the power in his hands, extending
Constitutional authorities of semi-presidential system,
maintaining the power like an absolutist. (...) Government has
control over electronic media, trying to prevent independence of
the papers." Gotovac, who due to criticism of the communist
repression, spent twelve years in Yugoslav prisons, announces
severe criticism of the authorities and effort of HSLS to bring
democratic change to Croatia as soon as possible. The claim that
the opposition coalition is unnatural is not right, as the
coalition is joined in devotion to freedom, says Gotovac, calling
Church to defend all-human values. /end/ A.S.�## CrossPoint v3.02 ##