Word: polish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Polish specialists have said that Gan. Wojciech Jaruzelski's regime is probably eager to see the 39-year-old electrician emigrate from his homeland, thus weakening his still-powerful influence on Polish workers...
...after Harvard announced that Polish labor leader Lech Walesa had accepted an invitation to speak at the University's Commencement exercises, three separate press dispatches from Europe yesterday reported that Walesa does not plan to make the trip to Cambridge...
...also released an earlier interview with an unidentified woman who said, from Walesa's Gdansk home. "He will be unable to travel there for well-known reasons.... He is simply not sure that he would be able to cross the Polish border in both directions...
...Robin Schmidt, Harvard's vice president for government and community affairs, said yesterday. "We're still hopeful that he'll be our Commencement speaker." Schmidt said that Harvard's only direct word from Walesa so far is a March 5 letter that states, in Polish, his acceptance of Harvard's invitation...
...officials at the Polish Brabassy in Washington said yesterday they thought Walesa would have no trouble in obtaining permission to travel to the United States and return to Poland. The officials, who insisted on anonymity, suggested that Walesa's reported decision might stem from personal reasons...