Sejm appoints Special Commission to probe into Rywin affair

On Friday the Sejm unanimously appointed a Special Commission to investigate the so-called Rywin affair. The Commission will consist of 10 deputies and its meetings will be reported to the press. Tomasz Nalecz from the Labour Union (UP) will probably become its head, but the final decision on this issue will be taken on Tuesday at the Commission's first meeting. At the same time, Lew Rywin sent a letter of apology to the Prime Minister, saying that the press has misrepresented his intentions as well as the purpose of his contacts with the Agora publisher. "We do not understand this letter. Does Rywin say that he did not say what he had said and what had been recorded on the tape which is at the disposal of the prosecutor right now," asked deputy editor of Gazeta Wyborcza Juliusz Rawicz. (Rzeczpospolita, Jan. 11-12, p. A3) A.Z.