Word: lech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since the Polish-born John Paul II was elevated to the papacy in 1978 had so many Poles tuned in to a television broadcast. The occasion: the live telecast last week of a 42-minute debate between Alfred Miodowicz, head of the country's official trade-union federation, and Lech Walesa, chairman of the banned Solidarity union. Some 20 million citizens, 78% of the country's adults, watched the show...
...outlawed Solidarity movement. As part of Rakowski's new economic reform program, the government announced, it would close down on Dec. 1 the famous Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, whose workers gave birth to Solidarity during a strike in 1980. Its 11,000 employees, including Solidarity's founder, Lech Walesa, a shipyard electrician for 21 years, would be forced to find jobs elsewhere...
Students have also papered the campus with positive quotations about Bush from public figures like Polish labor leader Lech Walesa...
...entire Cabinet has stepped down since Communist rule began in 1945. A new government, possibly including lay Catholics and moderate opposition figures, is expected to be installed this week. One of its first jobs: conducting negotiations next month with the Solidarity trade union, outlawed since 1981, and its leader Lech Walesa. In his first interview since agreeing to the talks, Walesa met with TIME Eastern Europe bureau chief Kenneth W. Banta and reporter Gertraud Lessing in a Gdansk church. Excerpts...
...midair mishap kills three Italian pilots and at least 47 spectators at a U. S. air base in West Germany, touching off a controversy about low- level flying within NATO. -- After being invited to meet with authorities, Poland' s Lech Walesa calls for striking workers to return to their jobs. -- A prosperous and newly democratized South Korea gets set to play host to the Olympics...