Word: lech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bluntly told the government of dirt-poor Haiti, "Something must change here." In Poland he met with General Wojciech Jaruzelski and called for the unshackling of Solidarity, the banned labor union. He also met privately with his native country's most celebrated nonperson, Nobel Peace Prizewinner Lech Walesa...
Before an audience of 450 in the University of Oslo's bright, marble-pillared Aula, or Great Hall, Nobel Committee Chairman Egil Aarvik lavished praise on the recipient of the 64th Nobel Peace Prize. Lech Walesa, said Aarvik, had raised "a burning torch, a shining name" to humanity's enduring dreams of freedom. Walesa, leader of Solidarity, the outlawed Polish independent trade union, did not hear those words. He had stayed behind in Gdansk for fear that the government would not allow him back into Poland...
...Derek Bok, here's an envelope, scaled; Inside it says only, "We've narrowed the field." But we heard just last night, and we think it just keen That he's picked Lech Walesa as Faculty Dean. To Henry Rosovsky, some fruit salad's come: His Core's found in apples; his new chair's a plum. Hugh Culkins--we bring a Hey Hey and Ho Ho. Just one more reminder: That's stock's got to go. To veep Robin Schmidt and George Putnam as well On Mass Hall's behalf we'll just bid you farewell. Here...
Magistrate Martella has maintained a strict silence on the inquiry, though last month he informed Agca that he was under investigation for slandering Antonov, apparently by implicating the Bulgarian in an alleged plot to kill Polish Labor Leader Lech Walesa earlier that same year...
...right. By the time Walesa returned to his home in the Baltic seaport of Gdansk, 1,000 supporters had already gathered outside his apartment. "Lech, Lech," they chanted as they hoisted their hero into the air. Walesa dedicated the award to the 10 million members of the outlawed Solidarity movement. He immediately promised to turn the prize money over to a fund that the Roman Catholic Church has been trying to establish for the country's farmers...