CET ON-LINE* 24- May -96

Friday, May 24,1996 Volume 1, Issue 354

The head of Slovakia's intelligence service (SIS) is accusing President Michal

Kovac and opposition politicians of seeking to subvert the country's

constitution. Earlier this week in a report to parliament which was to

have been

devoted to the activities of his service, Lexa was interrupted by jeers and

calls

for his resignation as he rejected allegations of the intelligence agency's

involvement in last year's kidnapping of the president's son. Lexa devoted a

considerable part of his report to accusing the opposition and president of

using

the kidnapping case for groundless attacks against the Meciar government.