1.  Albright urged the journalists to work with the weak Croatian opposition for democratic change.

2.  Croatian opposition parties Wednesday assailed a bill reintroducing press curbs last used when the communists were in power.

3.  The peace deal, expected to be signed at a Paris conference next month, has already been heavily criticised by Croatian opposition parties and the Bosnian Croat community.

4.  Yet there was support for the council decision from the Croatian opposition.

5.  The International Peace Bureau has nominated Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian opposition leaders for the next Nobel Peace Prize, the organization announced here Tuesday.

6.  The last president of Yugoslavia, Stipe Mesic, now a Croatian opposition leader, also remarked on the similarities.