Word: geremek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...communist past. His movie-star good looks and pleasant manner contrasted with a graying, truculent Walesa, who directed his appeal to a Polish Catholic conservatism that is going out of style. "It's more true that Walesa lost the election than that Kwasniewski won it," says Bronislaw Geremek, chairman of the Sejm's Foreign Affairs Committee...
...Minister of Youth Affairs under the communist regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski. "He is a man identified with a gang of thugs," Walesa growled. In a society that values courtly manners, the old electrician's style grated. "He did not realize that democratic power means persuading people," says Geremek...
...Solidarity comrades to turn against him. Even as they close ranks behind him to head off % a Tyminski victory, some are still wary. "Of all the postcommunist countries, Poland alone had a broad democratic movement like Solidarity, which we hoped would prepare us for any setbacks," says Bronislaw Geremek, once a close adviser to Walesa who later allied himself with Mazowiecki. "This election proves that Poland, like all the others, must confront the authoritarian temptation." Next week it must also confront the temptation to cast its fate with a mysterious stranger, one who turned up suddenly to offer a dubious...
Time and again, Polish leaders emphasized the depth of that worry. Last week Mazowiecki said Poland would prefer to have "only its own armed forces on its territory." But Polish membership in the Warsaw Pact, he added, "is important for the security of our borders." Bronislaw Geremek, parliamentary leader of Solidarity, puts it more bluntly: "The only way to change the border...