Word: danuta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...games of table tennis. He developed close links with the military and security services. His critics accused him of being authoritarian, a "President with an ax." In another historical irony, he was defeated by a former communist, Aleksander Kwasniewski. Walesa went back to Gdansk, to his villa, his wife Danuta and their eight children. But at 54 he is still young, and he recently announced the formation of his own political party. Like Gorbachev, he finds it very difficult to accept that he has become a historical figure rather than a politician with serious chances...
...then there is Danuta Michalowska, an actress who performed with Wojtyla in an underground drama group, the Rhapsodic Theater, during the Nazi Occupation. After his election as Pope, she sent him a formal message of congratulation, lamenting that they could not stay in touch because of his new eminence. Back came a handwritten note from John Paul, gently chiding her for thinking he would ignore her. Since then she has written the Pope dozens of letters, and every one has been answered...