In Brief: Rywingate; Jan Kurp; Dolnoslaski health service protests

Adam Michnik does not have to reveal any details concerning the invest igation launched by Gazeta Wyborcza in the summer and autumn of 2002 into the Lew Rywin affair. The district court in Warsaw decided that Michnik has the journalist's right to confidentiality. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A6) ... As of yesterday, Jan Kurp is the Podkarpacki voivod. The head of the Interior Ministry, Krzysztof Janik, explained in Rzeszow that the change was mo tivated by the re-allocation of the former voivod, Zdzislaw Siewierski, to the central government administration. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A6) ...Yesterday afternoon police had to use force in order to remove nurses and doctors who were occupying the office of the Dolnoslaski voivod. The protesters demanded that the health service be freed from debt. Other requests concerned the increase of expenditure on health, payment of delayed remunerations, and the transfer of financial resources to the Dolnoslaski Regional Health Fund. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A6) A.C.