Word: leching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parliamentary vote appeared to strengthen the hand of Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa and his fellow moderates, who faced a crucial showdown with union radicals as the ten-day Gdansk session opened on Saturday. Solidarity Secretary Andrzej Celinski hailed the government measure as a "victory for the union." When a number of congress delegates grumbled during opening sessions that the legislation did not, go far enough, Solidarity spokesmen argued yet again that some compromise was necessary. Said one State Department analyst: "Basically, the government has said that if the moderates come through, we'll try it. If they...
...Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa and his fellow union leaders refused to be intimidated. Instead, Solidarity's National Commission charged the Polish Politburo with "a lack of realism" and rejected the official "scenario of provocation." Once again, the scene seemed to be set for a showdown, with the Soviets waiting none too patiently in the wings...
Just before Solidarity's meeting, Union Chairman Lech Walesa said in an interview with the Cracow party daily that he was fed up with radicals trying to politicize the organization. Said he: "The truth is that when the tanks move in I will meet them first. They [the radicals] will escape, but I will not. What are they up to?" At the conference, Walesa took no part in the debates over the controversial resolutions. Sitting quietly in his front-row seat, chain-smoking cigarettes, the former electrician said it was "my turn to listen." But he finally spoke...
What was most notable about the increases was that the government did not clear them beforehand with Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa and his colleagues. Solidarity had maintained that there should be no changes in food prices until an economic reform program had been agreed upon. The government went ahead anyway, and Solidarity acquiesced, to avoid yet another showdown...
...second day, printers at Poland's largest printing plant, Dom Slowa Polskiego (House of the Polish Word), voted overwhelmingly to continue the protest. They had to be persuaded to return to work by Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, who told them that immediate concessions by the government were not possible. Walesa warned, however, that if the strike produced no results, another confrontation was "inevitable," and that Solidarity's next target would be the country's radio and television networks. Walesa seemed in unusually low spirits, lamenting, without explaining, that Solidarity members had "become shaky, scared and full...