Word: lech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Solidarity Union Leader Lech Walesa was in high spirits as he marched up the steps of Warsaw's gray stone Council of Ministers building last week. Grinning and puffing on his pipe, he joked good-naturedly with the gaggle of supporters around him. But the walrus-mustached electrician was in no mood for levity when he emerged after nearly four hours of talks with Poland's Premier, General Wojciech Jaruzelski. Looking fatigued and depressed, Walesa said only that "we did some things-and we did not do other things...
...Poland's Lech Walesa, leader of the Solidarity movement that is shaking Eastern Europe, sold out? And for $33? Not really. Walesa, 37, has simply turned movie star. In Director Andrzej Wajda's Man of Iron, a dramatization of last summer's shipyard strikes and a sequel to his acclaimed Man of Marble, Walesa plays himself. He apparently has no strikes against him. Says Wajda: "He performed without any stage fright and even joked that he might want to join the film company." His one scene yet to be filmed will show Walesa taking a meeting...
...their tools for five hours at several plants. They were protesting the government's failure to prosecute officials responsible for repression against local workers following the 1976 food price riots. In an apparent effort to head off a spiraling new round of labor upheavals, Jaruzelski invited Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa to meet with him in Warsaw on Saturday...
...agreement with the farmers likely to win favor from the Kremlin's leaders. Though the Rzeszów peasants had apparently been persuaded by Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa to suspend their demands for an independent union, they had also wrested two significant promises from the government. First, Warsaw agreed to increase the proportion of state funds invested in private agriculture, which produces 80% of the country's domestically grown food. Second, independent farmers would be allowed to purchase unused state land, which would increase the amount of privately owned farm land. Both provisions, obviously, flew in the face...
...agreed to convert a party sanitarium into a public hospital. After Jaruzelski's dramatic public appeal for a 90-day moratorium, Solidarity's national commission in Gdansk canceled a threatened printers' strike and ruled out all other work stoppages for the time being. But Union Leader Lech Walesa added that "our ultimate response to the call for a moratorium will depend on what happens during negotiations with the government." Those union-government talks currently under way concern a range of topics: the drafting of a new trade union law, the granting of radio and television time...