Word: lech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show up barefoot. Many Poles with a flair for the dramatic still dress in black, or at least wear a black ribbon, as a sign of national mourning over freedom lost. Others flaunt plastic badges of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, the religious emblem associated with imprisoned Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa. To show they have not lost their sense of black humor, still others express resistance to martial law by quite literally wearing a resistor, a tiny radio part, as an ornament...
...brief moment last week, the heady days of Lech Walesa's Solidarity labor movement seemed to return to Poland. Heeding an appeal broadcast by the union's clandestine radio station, Warsaw motorists honked their horns at the stroke of noon and snarled traffic for 15 minutes in the city's busiest intersection. Several thousand onlookers, many flashing victory signs, cheered the drivers with chants of "Solidarity" and "Free Walesa" as part of the suspended union's efforts to protest the imposition of martial law five months before...
Undeterred by the show of force, Solidarity members and supporters put up a huge poster of their leader, Lech Walesa, who remains interned. When banners bearing the suspended union's familiar SOLIDARNOSC logo were unfurled, the crowd's cheers were interrupted by the shrill sound of police loudspeakers issuing orders to disperse. Then the militiamen charged, beating demonstrators and bystanders indiscriminately. When the protesters responded with shouts of "Gestapo!" the militia began firing flares and tear-gas canisters into the crowd. High-powered water cannons drove some demonstrators into side streets. Others, less fortunate, were knocked down...
...independent union Solidarity. Flashing the victory sign and waving placards demanding FREE THE INTERNEES, the demonstrators headed off in the general direction of the authorized parade. They called to bystanders to join the march, and soon more than 20,000 were chanting "Solidarity," "Leszek" (for the interned Lech Walesa) and "Down with the junta...
...over from the political world to the personal idiosyncracies he shares with millions of readers. The man who named his daughter Victoria (nickname "Tory") aims his pen with equal vitriol at the designed hitter rule, modern art, and new cars with gaudy interior design. The admiration he expressed for Lech Walesa is no more important than his celebration of the ringing of bells (church, not door or phone), the National Cathedral, the Chicago Cubs, and the semi-colon...