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          RFE/RL Daily Report
                              No. 124, 1 July 1994


HEAD OF HUNGARIAN TELEVISION REPLACED. In one of their first
major political decisions, the ruling coalition parties agreed on
a replacement for the controversial head of Hungarian State
Television, Gabor Nahlik, MTI reported on 30 June. The new
candidate is Adam Horvath, a film, theater, and television
director. Horvath was a protege of the Kadar regime's culture
czar, Gyorgy Aczel. Nahlik's recall was initiated by care-taker
Prime Minister Peter Boross, in a gesture of political
reconciliation. Two vice presidential appointments were also
settled. The new appointments will be valid only until a new
media law is passed by the new parliament, but the appointees
received commitments to continued employment after the law takes
force. In a related development, Istvan G. Palfy, the director of
the TV news department, was relieved of his duties. Palfy had
been accused of propagating programs favoring the previous
government.  Karoly Okolicsanyi, RFE/RL, Inc.

  [As of 1200 CET]
  Compiled by Suzanne Crow and Louisa Vinton

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