Leading artists and scientists form committee to support Freedom Union

Leading figures in Polish arts and science circles, among them film director Andrzej Wajda, actor Gustaw Holoubek, and Nobel Prize winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, have demonstrated their support for the Freedom Union (UW) by setting up the Honorable Freedom Union Committee. Commenting on the announcement during a press conference yesterday, UW leader Bronislaw Geremek said, "We see it as a very specific token of trust, and we will try not to lose it." In the committee's declaration, read out by leader of rock band Elektryczne Gitary, Kuba Sienkiewicz, the committee members called on intellectual society and entrepreneurs to work together for the realization of the UW program. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 8) P.J.