Word: lech
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...concessions. Officials confirmed last week that the Pope had asked them to grant amnesty to all political prisoners before his arrival on June 16. The government refused, on the ground that this would not be "beneficial to public order." At week's end police seized former Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa and several aides in Warsaw. The "charge": meeting secretly with other members of the banned labor union and attempting to draft a letter to the Polish parliament. Police promptly drove Walesa to his home in Gdansk, 220 miles away, where they increased the security around his apartment and prevented...
When Harvard announced last month that it had invited Lech Walesa to be Commencement speaker, some people were more impressed than others, and among the more dispassionate was the Warsaw Communist daily Trynbuna Ludu. According to United Press International (UPI), last Friday's Trynbuna Ludu had this to say about Walesa's invitation and the subsequent confusion...
...slogans like "Harvard Loves Walesa. Hates Local 26" frustrate cold war liberals like Mike Anderson, but any class conscious worker knows something's fishy when Harvard honors Lech Walesa while busting Local 26. Solidarnosc is the only "union" loved by Ronald Reagan. Harvard, Wall Street, and the Apartheid regime of South Africa because it is a movement to bring Poland back to the "free world" of capitalist exploitation...
...much worse than disrupt student activism; they have jeopardized a workers union. In a leaflet issued today, the Sparts call on students to support Local 26: their main criticism of Harvard's union-busting administration, however, is that it has invited "the pro-capitalist, clerical-reactionary head of Solidarnose, Lech Walesa" to speak at Commencement. For the Sparts, supporting workers at Harvard means opposing them in Poland...
Though it is still more than six weeks away, Pope John Paul II's scheduled visit to his homeland has already set off a deepening struggle between Poland's military regime and the underground leaders of the banned Solidarity union. Last week former Union Leader Lech Walesa was detained for questioning by police for the third time in seven days. Yet after his release, Walesa went ahead with a planned press conference in which he reminded the government of Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski that Solidarity supporters "remain and will remain a moral force without which Poland cannot overcome...