Prime Minister's aide resigns after comments on Iraq prompt breach in trade

Poland may lose $700 million from Iraq's decision to close trade relations as a result of a statement of support for American air raids made by Prime Minister advisor Jerzy Nowakowski, who resigned yesterday. For a year and a half Baghdad had been indicating its desire to strengthen economic cooperation with Polish entrepreneurs, and a protocol was recently signed by the two countries inviting Polish companies to take part in trade offers in Iraq. Last year Baghdad officially confirmed that Iraq's debt to Poland exceeds $700 million and promised to repay it gradually through various allowances to Polish companies, a promise which now becomes uncertain.(Puls Biznesu, p.10) M.T. Britain admits NKVD assassination possible cause of General Sikorski's death After nearly sixty years of silence, Britain has finally admitted that Poland's war-time Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief, General Wladyslaw Sikorski, may have been assassinated rather than killed in an air crash, as the official version had it. Professor Jan Ciechanowski, member of the Polish-British history commission, has brought archival material from London according to which the air crash, which took place in Gibraltar in July 1943, is not the only possible explanation of Sikorski's death. The documents are said to include testimony of a deserter from the Soviet secret police NKVD, who said the NKVD was responsible for Sikorski's death. The general was said to have died as a result of the crash, but some of the people on board survived, including the pilot who, according to some aviation experts, simply conducted an emergency landing as part of a conspiracy. (Rzeczpospolita, p.A2) T.J.