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...were elected. Jaruzelski was among 50 nationally prominent candidates who ran unopposed. Before the election, he had hinted that if 75% of the country's 26 million eligible voters turned out, he might offer amnesty to 280 political prisoners, although he did not specify when that might be. But Lech Walesa, leader of the banned Solidarity labor union, and other opposition figures called for a boycott of the elections, which they claimed would not even begin to reflect public opinion...
...star witness in Poland's latest courtroom drama arrived wearing a T shirt emblazoned with the logo of Solidarity, the outlawed labor union he helped found. Lech Walesa had been summoned by the prosecution to testify in the trial of three Solidarity supporters, Bogdan Lis, Wladyslaw Frasyniuk and Adam Michnik, charged with trying to organize strikes to protest food-price increases. Walesa's testimony was as defiant as his dress. "Three innocent people are in the dock," he told the court...
Riesman also criticizes the University's decision in 1983 to invite Lech Walesa, leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity Union. Although Wales a was prevented from attending (Latin author Carlos Fuentes spoke instead), a text of his remarks was distributed to the Commencement audience. The selection of Walesa and its aftermath was an extravagantly political and "inappropriate" gesture, Riesman says...
Another plot was being investigated last week in Gdansk. The intended victim was Lech Walesa, 41, head of the banned Solidarity movement. Police were holding a paroled murderer who recently confessed that in 1983 he was asked by a mysterious man to murder the Solidarity leader. Said Walesa: "I am convinced that somebody is behind this...
...ordinary group that gathered secretly in a Gdansk apartment last week. Sitting alongside former Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa were other prominent activists of the banned trade union, which has called for a nationwide 15-minute strike on Feb. 28 to protest a proposed increase in food prices. Among those present: Bogdan Lis of Gdansk, Adam Michnik of Warsaw and Wladyslaw Frasyniuk of Wroclaw...