Pope may visit Zagre

BY VIVIANP HP12177TT IN ROME SPECUIATION heightened in Rome this week that Pope John Paul H plans to visit the former Yugoslavia in the autumn.
According to an assistant to Cardinal Fanjo Kuharic of Zagreb, the Pope is expected in the Croatian capital in September, when he is said to be planning a "meet the people" tour of Mara Bistrica, a Catholic sanctuary about 15 miles from Zagreb.
The Holy See insistedthis week thEt any visit to the war zones of Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia was "still under study".
A papal visit to Sarajevo would pose major security problems, according to the news leaks, because the Vatican would have to involve United Nations peace-keeping contingents.
Belgrade, the old capital of formerly Communist Yugoslavia, would also be a difficult stop-off because authorities there have always interpreted papal appeals for peace as veiled critic' of Serb policies.
Events, say observ zapnpe.ear to be paving the for a papal visit to the o
The Holy See has b en making diplomatic ov to Serb authorities, requesting that the anti-Serbian embargo be lifted because of the hardships it was causing the civilian population.
The Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexei H recently expressed the hope that he would meet with John Paul rs, in Sarajevo.