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Sachs likens the situation to a politicalcartoon he saw that depicted Poland before thereforms as a "plane that was flaming out with bothengines on fire." In the drawing, then-Polishleader General Jaruzelski is walking to the backof the plane holding a broken-off steering wheel."He leans over to Lech Walesa and says, `Okay, youtry and run this plane...
Lewandowski lives in Gdansk, where the Solidarity movement was born during widespread strikes a decade ago. An early activist in the movement, Lewandowski describes himself as a top advisor on economic policy to Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa until he began his own political party, a splinter party of the Solidarity movement which will support Walesa in the November elections...
...land strewn with the detritus of his nation's recent struggles. Was he a Moscow stooge back in 1981 or a Polish patriot making an unpopular move to prevent the bloodbath of a Soviet invasion? Was he as pivotal a political player during the 1980s as trade-union leader Lech Walesa, or was his just a walk-on part that will quickly fade in memory...
...book's first-person essays get progressively better, longer and more elaborate. Ash's accounts begin in warsaw in 1980, where as an observing historian, he met opposition leaders Lech Walesa and Adam Michnik even before Solidarity became a household world in the West...
...months trade union leader Lech Walesa has been accusing Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki of too much haste in economic reform and too little urgency in ridding the government of onetime Communists. With his eye on the presidency, currently held by General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Walesa has also been urging that elections scheduled for next spring be held earlier...