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...Lech Walesa was back in the spotlight last week, holding aloft a bouquet of flowers and basking in the cheers of 1,500 supporters gathered near the Lenin Shipyard in the Baltic port of Gdansk. Four years ago, the outspoken electrician had scaled the shipyard gates and assumed the leadership of a strike that gave birth to Solidarity, the Communist bloc's first independent trade union. Solidarity was officially suspended in 1981, when the regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law and detained most of the union's leaders. But as Walesa and his fellow workers showed...
...hopeful as he welcomed well-wishers to his Gdansk apartment. If the relaxation continues, he said, "we might reach the point that the government will decide on pluralism." He added, "The present government is the most intelligent in the past 40 years, and that is already something." Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa also expressed hope for renewed contact between Poland's leaders and the opposition. But he warned that if the regime turns its back on dialogue, "then in one month's time we will have a similar situation, with perhaps more in prison than we have...
...trial in Warsaw last week with conspiring to overthrow the Communist system in Poland. That could mean only one thing: they had collaborated with the banned Solidarity movement. So when Intellectuals Jacek Kuron, Adam Michnik, Henryk Wujec and Zbigniew Romaszewski appeared before a military tribunal, former Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa broke off his summer vacation to travel to Warsaw. Although rows of police prevented Walesa from entering the military courthouse, his presence drew cheers and applause from the crowd that had gathered outside...
...inflated the figures by 10% to 15%. They claimed, for example, that at one polling station in the industrial city of Nowa Huta the turnout was a mere 10%. One Pole who was a definite no-show at his polling place was Solidarity's former elected leader, Lech Walesa. The mustachioed electrician who caught the world's attention during Poland's short-lived era of renewal went to morning Mass in Gdansk and then headed off to a favorite fishing hole. Walesa had told Poles that he would suspend his political activities unless they heeded the boycott...
Harvard officials said that the Dershowitz request is not the first time such an issue has arisen Last year, the University declined an honorary degree to Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, who was invited to deliver the Commencement address but could not make it to Cambridge...