In Brief: New officials in Ag Min; Self Defense is ready; PM-President conflict

The Prime Minister has appointed Wojciech Olejniczak as Secretary of State in the Agriculture Ministry and Zofia Krzyżanowska as Undersecretary. (www.onet.pl) ... As early elections are becoming increasingly more likely, SELF-DEFENSE has begun to discreetly began to mobilize as it thinks it will come into power. A list of unofficial candidates for ministers is already circulating among the party's deputies. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A4) ... "Just as there is mad cow disease, so I am now under the impression that we have also have mad journalist disease," Prime Minister Leszek Miller said yesterday referring to the media's description of his conflict with the President. In an interview for Polish Radio he urged the media not to stir up conflicts. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3) A.Z.