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...Lech Walesa actually showed up to speak at Commencement, the Solidarity leader would have upheld more than one distinguished tradition. He would also have briefly joined the ranks of political dissident scholars who find a refuge, temporary or permanent, at Harvard, leaving Europe, Asia and Africa to seek the academic and social freedom of the Harvard community...
...University officials announced that Polish labor leader Lech Walesa had accepted an invitation to speak at this year's Commencement exercises. An acceptance would have marked the dissident's first trip out of Poland since the crackdown on Solidarity in December 1981, and his first trip to the United States ever. But the University's hopes were dashed when later that same day. UPI reported that Walesa could not make it, a fact it confirmed later in the month through secret intermediaries. (For a detailed account of the Walesa invitation, see page...
...Every death is painful, but this one is especially brutal. It will not be forgotten." As the telegram from Lech Walesa, founder of the outlawed independent trade union Solidarity, was read, a hush fell over the mourners who had gathered in Warsaw's St. Stanislaw Kostka Roman Catholic Church last week. Then they burst into applause. The funeral was for Grzegorz Przemyk, 19, a high school senior who died of injuries received from a severe beating by Polish militiamen. His death quickly became a rallying cause for Poles who hate the regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski...
...concessions. Officials confirmed last week that the Pope had asked them to grant amnesty to all political prisoners before his arrival on June 16. The government refused, on the ground that this would not be "beneficial to public order." At week's end police seized former Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa and several aides in Warsaw. The "charge": meeting secretly with other members of the banned labor union and attempting to draft a letter to the Polish parliament. Police promptly drove Walesa to his home in Gdansk, 220 miles away, where they increased the security around his apartment and prevented...
When Harvard announced last month that it had invited Lech Walesa to be Commencement speaker, some people were more impressed than others, and among the more dispassionate was the Warsaw Communist daily Trynbuna Ludu. According to United Press International (UPI), last Friday's Trynbuna Ludu had this to say about Walesa's invitation and the subsequent confusion...