Word: lech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night, more than 2,000 riot police and elite commandos routed several hundred occupying strikers at the Nowa Huta steel mill near Cracow, reportedly injuring at least 40 of them. Meanwhile, police surrounded the more recently occupied Gdansk shipyard, isolating a strike force of about 1,000, which included Lech Walesa, legendary founder of the outlawed Solidarity independent trade union...
Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa quickly endorsed the apparently spontaneous protests on behalf of his outlawed organization. He and fellow Solidarity activists are in a delicate position: they fear the consequences of massive strikes but are eager to play a role in any new round of negotiations between the workers and the regime. Conceding that huge across-the-board wage increases would undermine the already tottering economy, Walesa called for genuine economic and political reforms instead...
Solidarity chief Lech Walesa vowed to be the "last to leave," as the deadlock continued into the night at the Lenin shipyard in this Baltic port city...
Solidarity founder Lech Walesa, speaking outside St. Brygida's Catholic Church in Gdansk, told about 6000 supporters that the time had come for them to take a stand in support of the striking steel workers...
...already creaky. Living standards have fallen below their 1975 levels, with wages averaging less than $90 a month. Technologically, the country is so backward that many farmers still plant and harvest from horse-drawn carts, while many factories run on steam-powered . machinery from the last century. Even Lech Walesa, former leader of the now outlawed Solidarity, favors basic economic reforms. "The point is not to fight against the authorities," he said last week. "We must make efforts to achieve structural change...