Word: lech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could TIME choose Ronald Reagan as Man of the Year over Poland's Lech Walesa? Walesa is the only person thus far to challenge successfully totalitarian Communism at its weakest point, human rights and freedom. He is risking his life and the lives of his wife and six small children...
Three cheers for Lech Walesa and the leaders of Solidarity in Poland [Dec. 29]. With the Soviets threatening their homeland more and more each day, they have stood calmly defiant in support of their ideals and their legitimate demands for a free union system. Their message to Moscow is not only making the Soviets squirm, but is also informing anticapitalist idealists right here in the U.S. that Communism is not working...
...scaling the gates of the strikebound Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk last August to lead what may be the most remarkable workers' revolt in the history of organized labor, Lech Walesa showed the world that the "inevitable" march of history is no match for the indomitable spirit of the individual will...
...Lech Walesa has given new life to the motto "Workers of the world, unite...
...effort to avert a collision with the government and stave off a possible Soviet military invasion, Lech Walesa, the leader of Poland's independent Solidarity unions, had called for a moratorium on strikes until mid-January. But last week, after scarcely more than a month of relative peace, the labor front heated up again. Renewed protests and strike threats showed that the union leadership is still unable to impose a uniform discipline on the vast and restive labor movement...