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Annual rept by Sec Roper
F C Meier repts on analysis of collection made by C A Lindbergh on North Atlantic flight; special device for collecting them described
flags withdrawn after arrival of troops; speculation on voting
Veniremen get booklet through mail pub yr ago attacking kidnap story; Hauck charges attempt to tamper with jury and calls conf of prosecutors; Fisher will ask new panel; M B Spencer, author, says booklet was satire
1934Stjepan Mesić, Croatian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Croatia[†]
Stjepan "Stipe" Mesić is a Croatian lawyer and politician who served as the president of Croatia from 2000 to 2010. Before serving two five-year terms as president, he was prime minister of SR Croatia (1990) after the first multi-party elections, the last president of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (1991) and consequently secretary general of the Non-Aligned Movement (1991), as well as the speaker of the Croatian Parliament (1992–1994), and mayor of his hometown of Orahovica.