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...words in the UPI interview held the key to his reluctance to travel: "I cannot go without being sure whether I can come back or not." The real obstacle to Walesa's visit, experts said, did not center on obtaining a visa to the United States, however much the Polish authorities may have disliked the prospect of the labor leader decrying the Communist regime in a well-publicized Western speech...
Wroblewski speculated further that Polish officials had possibly struck a deal with Walesa, promising increased leniency towards Polish laborers--several of whom faced trial at the time--in return for a turndown to Harvard from Walesa...
...likelier explanation for Walesa's change of mind, suggested the scholar, was the mounting tension from two imminent events in which he had a crucial stake: a string of major demonstrations planned for May Day and the mid-June visit to Warsaw of Pope John Paul II, a former Polish cardinal...
...kept a fairly low profile, but the April meeting and its subsequent wide publicity appeared to signal a new defiance on the labor chief's part. "It seems to indicated that Walesa is ready and willing to take a more active part in the resistance," observed Tadeusz Szafar, a Polish visiting scholar at the Russian Research Center. "I don't know what it achieves for him, but it's certainly not permission to go to Harvard...
During the following weeks, Polish authorities stepped up their surveillance of the restive labor leader. The day after the announcement of the Solidarity meeting. Walesa was forcibly taken from his home to a nearby militia station, where he was detained and interrogated for five hours. Later that week his wife and his chauffeur were also called in for questioning...