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...speak at this year's Commencement exercises. An acceptance would have marked the dissident's first trip out of Poland since the crackdown on Solidarity in December 1981, and his first trip to the United States ever. But the University's hopes were dashed when later that same day. UPI reported that Walesa could not make it, a fact it confirmed later in the month through secret intermediaries. (For a detailed account of the Walesa invitation, see page...
...later that afternoon, UPI quoted Walesa as saying "No, I am not going." In a telephone interview with the service's Warsaw bureau, he explained that "this situation is so unstable that I cannot go without being sure whether I can come back...
...only hours after the news was out, word of the UPI interview reached Harvard, and it stunned the administrators who had planned that day's announcement. Schmidt scrambled to track down Wroblewski--who was in the Crimson newsroom at the time trying to reach sources in Poland--to ask him what he made of the dispatch. Wroblewski told him the rejection sounded entirely plausible. "That report was a complete surprise," Schmidt recalls. "But you never know what will transpire between an acceptance and an announcement, when it's as politically charged as this...
...number of theories emerged to explain Walesa's new assertion. Many Poland specialists agreed that Walesa's own 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...
...thing appeared. Radio Free Europe announced that Walesa accepted the invitation of Harvard University where he is supposed to hold a speech. . . However, on the same day in the evening, RFE hastily announces that contrary to the previous announcement. Walesa decided not to accept the invitation. The UPI adds that in a telephone interview Walesa says that he cannot leave Poland (surely it will collapse without...