More local soldiers bound for Iraq

"I will do my best to return with as many soldiers as I was originally sent with," stated General Andrzej Tyszkiewicz before departing to Iraq yesterday. After two weeks' acclimatization in Kuwait, Tyszkiewicz and 250 Polish soldiers are going to set off to the Polish zone in Iraq and join the 100 soldiers who had been previously sent there. At a press conference held yesterday, Defense Minister Jerzy Szmajdziński said that Polish soldiers would have to face "a difficult and risky task" adding that final success depended on various different factors. At the same time, Generals Czesław Piątas and Andrzej Tyszkiewicz said that plans had been made to station soldiers from 15 other countries in the Polish zone. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A. 3) A.Z. Lawyers blamed for ‘disappearance' of parts of Radio and Television Lawyers at the Culture Ministry and the National Radio and Television Council (KRRiTV) are responsible for removing part of the Radio and Television Bill, after it had been approved by the cabinet, said Aleksander Proksa, the cabinet secretary, in testimony given yesterday to the Rywin commission. This is the second time that part of the text had gone missing in the process of preparing the document. The first time, was the ‘disappearance' of a few words that would have had the effect of blocking the privatization of one of TVP's channels. Now, words that 'dropped out due to technical problems' were those that were intended to block the right of magazine owners to control TV or radio stations. According to Proksa, Janina Sokołowska, head of the Legal Department at KRRiTV, was closely involved in the process of shaping the Bill. This caused alarm and consternation among the commission members, who were concerned that a private person, not responsible for her actions before the cabinet, and whose impartiality could easily be called into question, had been delegated to assist in work on the document. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3) J.K.