Word: lech
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...currency violations. Days before, the state-run television network had played a tape recording in which he could purportedly be heard discussing a $1 million foreign bank account and bemoaning the fact that he had been passed up for a Nobel Prize last year. To relieve the pressure, Lech Walesa, leader of the now banned Solidarity movement, went off with a group of friends one day last week to hunt for wild mushrooms in the woods about 50 miles from his home. But he did not find the seclusion he sought. Walesa was pursued by U.S. and West German television...
...several international organizations, like the United Nations Children's Fund. In citing its reasons for picking Walesa, the Nobel committee declared that his activities had "been characterized by a determination to solve his country's problems through negotiation and cooperation without resorting to violence." It added: "Lech Walesa's contribution is both an inspiration and an example." The committee knew its decision would create a stir. Said Chairman Egil Aarvik: "I don't expect any thanks or gratitude from the Polish authorities. But I can imagine that the attitude of the Polish people will be very...
Wajda has said that Danton represents the West today, Robespierre the Stalinoid East. The film may even be a more intimate parable. Perhaps Danton is Lech Walesa, Robespierre General Jaruzelski. Certainly it shows revolutionary politics to be, as one French intellectual commented, "a pact with death." But however one reads it, Wajda's is a film of high dramatic power, at once a mature study of the revolutionary mentality and an absorbing intellectual spectacle. -By Richard Schickel
Once again workers were marching through the streets of Gdansk, shouting out the name of Solidarity and flourishing their familiar V signs, and once again Lech Walesa was walking at their head. As the passionate faithful, 3,000 strong, neared the town's 151-foot monument to workers slain in 1970, they were stopped by a cordon of security police. Walesa and his bodyguard were permitted to pass. Advancing to the monument, the stocky electrician knelt before its three towering steel crosses and gently laid at its base a bouquet of red and pink gladioli. Then, flanked by security...
...underground when martial law was declared, the government promised not to prosecute any activists who turned themselves in before Oct. 31. But Zbigniew Bujak, former director of Solidarity's Warsaw branch, declared that the union's leadership would wait for a full, unconditional amnesty. Former Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, who was released from detention last November, said that the government's new measures were worse than martial law and would only "dig a wider gulf between the government and the governed...