Word: lech
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Former Union Leader Lech Walesa was in a combative mood last week when three policemen turned up at his apartment in the Polish seaport of Gdansk. The cops wanted to detain him for questioning, but the folk hero of the country's now outlawed Solidarity movement refused to go. His reason: the police could not produce an arrest warrant. Said Walesa: "You should abide by the laws." Momentarily nonplussed, the police retreated, but they returned almost immediately to tell Walesa that they would take him away by force if necessary. Finally, Walesa was whisked to a militia headquarters...
Some hard questions have to be asked in the wake of Harvard's invitation to speak at its commencement exercises extended to Lech Walesa...
True to form, as with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Lech Walesa's only claim to fame and his only achievement is his contribution to the Cold War anticommunist prop, aganda will, had for this alone is he attractive to Harvard, which needs to present its face at least once a year...
...Poland yesterday, Solidarity's leader, Lech Walesa, who has been invited by Harvard to deliver the Commencement address, was seized by police at his Gdansk apartment and released five hours later...
...resolution states that "the people of Cambridge, Massachusetts also recognize Lech Walesa as a true and courageous leader in the movement to working conditions for the working people throughout the world...