Presidential aide exonerated for calling rival campaign hooligan organizers

A court in Warsaw yesterday dismissed a lawsuit against President Aleksander Kwasniewski's campaign manager Ryszard Kalisz filed by the campaign team of another presidential contender Marian Krzaklewski. Kalisz was alleged to have falsely accused the rival team of organizing gangs of hooligans to disrupt a campaign rally that Kwasniewski staged in Bialystok. Kalisz made the accusation during an interview on Radio Zet. A motion was filed immediately with the court accusing Kalisz of waging a deliberate campaign of character assassination against Krzaklewski. (Rzeczpospolita, page C2)