Word: mazowiecki
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...study in contrasts, the two front runners in Poland's first-ever popular presidential election campaign could hardly be more sharply drawn. The gaunt, intellectual Tadeusz Mazowiecki moves slowly and speaks diffidently on weekends-only campaign swings that are wedged into his prime-ministerial schedule. The paunchy trade unionist Lech Walesa, on the other hand, blitzes the country with almost daily campaign meetings, haranguing opponents and sweet-talking supporters at every stop...
With only days to go before the vote on Nov. 25, Walesa's aggressive campaigning appears to be paying off. One opinion poll showed last week that the Nobel laureate, who trailed Mazowiecki by 5 points in mid-October, had moved ahead to take a 7-point lead. Poland's only bookmaker gave Walesa the edge, with odds of 11 to 10, in contrast to 4 to 1 for the Prime Minister...
That declaration pitted Walesa, 47, against Mazowiecki, 63, a former colleague, who urged gradual political and economic change and wanted to postpone the presidential campaign until 1991. Walesa accused the Mazowiecki government of dragging its feet on reform and of being too soft on former Communists, many of whom still occupy important positions. What will Walesa do if elected? "There will be a lot of improvisation," he says vaguely. "I'll travel around and check things...
...suddenly possible, and you had to help fight for it," she recalls. Like many previously quiescent East European women, she flung herself into active opposition to the Communist regime. The political education she received as the trade union rose and fell, and the relationship she developed with Tadeusz Mazowiecki, later to become the Prime Minister of Poland, propelled her to her present prominence...
...arrests may have been timed to help Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki in his presidential campaign against Solidarity leader Lech Walesa. Walesa, who announced his bid for the job four weeks ago, has accused Mazowiecki of lacking decisiveness in prosecuting ex-Communists...