Word: leching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tour's first stop, after briefings in Washington, was in France, where Lech Walesa, the head of Poland's Solidarity trade union, came to Charles de Gaulle Airport for breakfast with the group. He was questioned closely about Solidarity's program for economic and political renewal. "If things were managed logically," Walesa said, "there would be a quick recovery, because labor understands what it is all about...
...winds whipped around Gdansk's 14th century gothic town hall last week, but the real storm was within. Lech Walesa, 38, faced one of the toughest challenges to his leadership of Solidarity, Poland's independent trade union federation. The occasion: a meeting of Solidarity's 107-member national commission. The task: to react to Walesa's announcement that he would join in an unprecedented tripartite summit meeting with Poland's Premier, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, and Roman Catholic Primate, Archbishop Jozef Glemp. The meeting would consider the country's explosive political and economic plight...
...calling for an end to protest strikes, the party leaders had an undeclared ally in Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa. "I want to think that the strike will be the last one of its kind," he told workers at Warsaw's Rosa Luxemburg electronics plant on the day of the national walkout. Instead of symbolic protests, he suggested, the workers should resort to "active strikes," remaining on the job but distributing "what we make ourselves...
...protests continued to mount, Solidarity's national commission held an emergency session in Gdansk to draw up a unified course of action. Seeking to counter the extreme demands of union radicals like Jan Rulewski, who called for an opposition political party, Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa warned of the dangers of being goaded into a confrontation. Said he: "Someone wants to draw us into a fight because we are winning." The union boss added that he would soon meet with Jaruzelski to discuss the crisis face to face. Walesa said his first question would be: "Shall we save the country...
David agreement, a joint selection that roiled the Arab world. This year the Nobel Committee in Oslo seemed determined to avoid contention. Passed over last week was the front-running candidate, Polish Trade Union Leader Lech Walesa, a choice that would have sorely aggravated the Soviet Union...