Former Tatry Park director reappointed by new Environment Minister

New Environment Minister Stanislaw Zelichowski has reappointed Wojciech Gasi ennica-Byrcyn as director of the Tatry National Park (TPN). The Minister, wh o is a member of the Polish Peasants Party (PSL), a junior partner in the go verning coalition, gave Gasiennica-Byrcyn a choice, of becoming a deputy min ister and the government's chief conservationist, or returning to his former job. "I prefer to be back in Tatry, in the Park, at home," Gasiennica-Byrcyn said yesterday. Several weeks ago, under the previous Solidarity Election Ac tion (AWS) government, then Environment Minister Antoni Tokarczuk dismissed Gasiennica-Byrcyn, accusing him of restricting visitors' access to the Tatry Mountains. (Gazeta Wyborcza, pp. 1, 3) M.T.