President accepts Morawski resignation, but Majkowski stays put for now
President Aleksander Kwasniewski has announced he will accept the
resignation of Kazimierz Morawski, his advisor for minority issues,
according to Marek Siwiec, head of the National Security Bureau (BBN).
Morawski decided to resign from his position after Gazeta Polska revealed
he had taken part in the anti-Semitic campaign in 1968. Morawski is said to
have praised a publication by Tadeusz Walichnowski suggesting that West
Germany used the Israeli secret service to fight Communism. Morawski, now 72
years old, says he will sue the newspaper for manipulating information.
However, another Presidential aide, Andrzej Majkowski, also involved in the
1968 campaign, will not lose his post. "It is good that Morawski is going,
but we have to throw out the entire 'gang of four': Siwiec, Dukaczewski, and
Majkowski, too," said Stefan Niesiolowski of Solidarity Election Action
(AWS). (Zycie, March 31-April 1, p.3; Gazeta Wyborcza, March 31-April 1,
p.5) J.K .