Thursday cancelled for the second time the vote given for the assignment of Dan Andronescu as UMF rector. The Education Ministry commission established the fresh UMF leadership was not legally elected, with minister Athanasiu having ordered the organisation of new elections by the end of June. Athanasiu also decided that the Medicine University in Bucharest be run until then neither by the old rector, Laurentiu Mircea Popescu, nor by the new one, but by Florin Popa, a pro-rector between 2000 and 2004. Journalist Ino Ardelean, Timisoara correspondent of "Evenimentul zilei", who was beaten by unidentified authors on a street in the centre of the city early December 2003, is acussing the police that they are trying to hush up the case. The journalist's layer, Florin Covaci, told a press conference on Thursday that they sued the Administration and Interior Ministry and that, together with his client and with the support of the Foundation for an Open Society, would send a file with the cronology of the press releases and statements made by officials to the press on Ino Ardelea case to several international organizations, such as the European Parliament, the European Commission, the Council of Europe, the US State Department, the Helsinki Committee, and the embassies of all the EU member states. Adrian Sirbu, owner of PRO TV private television, following the "Evenimentul zilei" daily article on the likelihood of his becoming a vice president of the ruling party PSD, told Mediafax news agency, which he also owns, that had no intention to become a political party member. Sirbu added his companies paid all their taxes to the state budget, but he did not deny his involvement in the PSD's electoral campaign for the Bucharest city hall. The Labour Minister has started checks throughout the country to identify cases of labour exploitation of children, after the eladers