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...memos have circulated among party leaders warning of strikes, police confrontation, widespread outbreaks of crime. But no significant pockets of dissent have formed among the people. "They are not content, but they are not going to get in the government's face," a Western diplomat says. "This is not Gdansk...
...GDANSK, Poland: Lech Walesa returned to his old job today as an electrician at the Gdansk shipyard. Poland's former president has been on unpaid leave since he left the birthplace of the movement that eventually toppled communist rule in 1989 to become Solidarity's national chairman. Walesa claims he needs to return to work because presidents are not provided with pensions under current Polish law. "I'm without money for living, and it's necessary for me to work," he said after arriving at the shipyard in a state-owned chauffeur-driven Mercedes, a perk he is entitled...
...GDANSK, Poland: Lech Walesa returned to his old job today as an electrician at the Gdansk shipyard. Poland's former president has been on unpaid leave since he left the birthplace of the movement that eventually toppled communist rule in 1989 to become Solidarity's national chairman. Walesa claims he needs to return to work because presidents are not provided with pensions under current Polish law. "I'm without money for living, and it's necessary for me to work," he said after arriving at the shipyard in a state-owned chauffeur-driven Mercedes, a perk he is entitled...
...GDANSK, Poland: Lech Walesa returned to his old job today as an electrician at the Gdansk shipyard. Poland's former president has been on unpaid leave since he left the birthplace of the movement that eventually toppled communist rule in 1989 to become Solidarity's national chairman. Walesa claims he needs to return to work because presidents are not provided with pensions under current Polish law. "I'm without money for living, and it's necessary for me to work," he said after arriving at the shipyard in a state-owned chauffeur-driven Mercedes, a perk he is entitled...
...GDANSK, Poland: Lech Walesa returned to his old job today as an electrician at the Gdansk shipyard. Poland's former president has been on unpaid leave since he left the birthplace of the movement that eventually toppled communist rule in 1989 to become Solidarity's national chairman. Walesa claims he needs to return to work because presidents are not provided with pensions under current Polish law. "I'm without money for living, and it's necessary for me to work," he said after arriving at the shipyard in a state-owned chauffeur-driven Mercedes, a perk he is entitled...