Word: gdansk
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...close adviser, to serve as Prime Minister. Walesa expected to be a power behind the throne, but Mazowiecki kept his old colleague at arm's length. Walesa brought his resentment onto the campaign trail, complaining at one rally that though he had a special phone line installed at his Gdansk headquarters to connect him with Mazowiecki's office, "it never rang." With his hearty manner and working-class accent, Walesa derided Mazowiecki as an intellectual out of touch with ordinary Poles...
Lewandowski lives in Gdansk, where the Solidarity movement was born during widespread strikes a decade ago. An early activist in the movement, Lewandowski describes himself as a top advisor on economic policy to Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa until he began his own political party, a splinter party of the Solidarity movement which will support Walesa in the November elections...
Born in Danzig, now Gdansk, Poland, in 1927, Rosovsky came to the United States in 1940. He received an A.B. (1949) and L.L.D. (1976) from William and Mary, and an A.M. (1953) and Ph.D. (1959) from Harvard...
Walesa, though, has grown unhappy playing second fiddle to Mazowiecki. While the Prime Minister was in Warsaw making policy and winning headlines, Walesa has been running what often seemed a shadow government from a second-floor office near the Gdansk shipyards that were his springboard into history. In recent weeks he began criticizing the government for the slow pace of reform. Says Professor Adam Bromke of the Polish Academy of Sciences: "He is having to share a stage that was once his alone, and he doesn't like...
While Mazowiecki has been a thoughtful and precise leader, Walesa frequently gives the impression of rumpled sartorial and intellectual disorder. Receiving a group of TIME editors two weeks ago in Gdansk in slippers and checked shirt, he made a passionate appeal, laced with colorful metaphors, for Western aid. But when pushed on specifics, he rambled or retreated into further metaphors. "We are like men learning to swim," he replied to a question on whether Poland was receiving enough aid from the West. "If you don't help us to learn, we will pull you down with...