Word: lech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gathered at the base of a ten-foot-high monument to the Home Army, the non-Communist resistance group that organized the 1944 revolt, about 1,000 supporters of the suspended Solidarity union sang hymns, raised their hands in V-for-victory signs and called for the liberation of Lech Walesa, the union leader who remains under detention in southeast Poland...
...Jaruzelski's measures fell far short of satisfying most Poles. He did not mention Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, who is being held in a hunting lodge in southeastern Poland. Although Jaruzelski said the governing military council hoped to end martial law "before the end of the year," he added that the Sejm would first have to grant the Council of Ministers unspecified "special powers." It did not take long for Poles to see for themselves that little had changed. Before dawn on National Day, security forces destroyed a cross of evergreens and flowers that had been placed in Warsaw...
...Solidarity detainees who are still held in some 20 camps is said to be high. In some detention centers, guards on patrol at the perimeter of the camps even signal their support for prisoners within by flashing the V-for-victory sign. The authorities have shifted Solidarity Chief Lech Walesa from the villa outside Warsaw where he had been held under house arrest to a remote town in the southeast, an indication that the government may have given up efforts to negotiate an accommodation with the independent trade union movement...
...Polish political prisoners; the start of negotiations among the Polish government, the Solidarity trade union and the Roman Catholic Church. Administration sources privately concede that the White House would now accept any one of these steps-or even a milder move, such as the release of Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa from house arrest-as justification for loosening the sanctions...
...nation's 1.3 million college graduates, the advice from their distinguished elders tended to be far more somber than lighthearted. The dominant topics were the nuclear arms race, the decline of Western values, the nation's economic troubles and the dangerous tensions abroad. Polish Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa was awarded honorary degrees in absentia at Providence College in Rhode Island, Mac Murray College in Jacksonville, Ill., and Springfield College in Massachusetts. Said Monsignor George G. Higgins at Providence College commencement ceremonies: "You [Walesa] are an electrician whose light cannot be obscured by the darkness of despotism...