Word: lech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lech Walesa actually showed up to speak at Commencement, the Solidarity leader would have upheld more than one distinguished tradition. He would also have briefly joined the ranks of political dissident scholars who find a refuge, temporary or permanent, at Harvard, leaving Europe, Asia and Africa to seek the academic and social freedom of the Harvard community...
...University officials announced that Polish labor leader Lech Walesa had accepted an invitation to speak at this year's Commencement exercises. An acceptance would have marked the dissident's first trip out of Poland since the crackdown on Solidarity in December 1981, and his first trip to the United States ever. But the University's hopes were dashed when later that same day. UPI reported that Walesa could not make it, a fact it confirmed later in the month through secret intermediaries. (For a detailed account of the Walesa invitation, see page...
...Lech Walesa is a man who started out a day-break, (at the hour) when the history of Poland demanded that the people of Poland act to solve the problems that a repressive government and a hollow party no longer knew how to solve...
...Latin America who have practiced solidarity with Solidarity salute Lech Walesa today...
...Every death is painful, but this one is especially brutal. It will not be forgotten." As the telegram from Lech Walesa, founder of the outlawed independent trade union Solidarity, was read, a hush fell over the mourners who had gathered in Warsaw's St. Stanislaw Kostka Roman Catholic Church last week. Then they burst into applause. The funeral was for Grzegorz Przemyk, 19, a high school senior who died of injuries received from a severe beating by Polish militiamen. His death quickly became a rallying cause for Poles who hate the regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski...