Word: walesa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their coalition allies, and coming into effect later this year - puts too much power in the hands of accusers. "It is a violation of the rule of law and the rights of ordinary citizens," Bronislaw Geremek, a leading social historian, who served as an adviser to Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, told TIME. "It gives the state and managers the right of deciding the fate of individuals who are unable to defend themselves...
...Year in the past several decades. Some, of course, are easier than others. Our correspondent was expelled from Iran only days after his Man of the Year interview with the Ayatullah Khomeini (1979) was published, and we were able to print an interview with Solidarity leader Lech Walesa (1981) when Poland was under martial law thanks only to a correspondent's ingenuity: he sewed the transcript into the lining of his overcoat and smuggled it out. Except in such obviously dicey situations, we've usually found getting Man of the Year interviews, even under deadline pressure, to be fairly simple...
...Poland and Ukraine, agrees that Civic Platform "has a better program" for business. He wants government off his back: "I don't expect the government to help me with my business. I count on myself." Kaczynski is counting on voters still wanting a bigger role for government. Once Lech Walesa's designated successor to lead Solidarity, Kaczynski left politics in the early 1990s and later taught law at Warsaw University. He returned in 2000 as Justice Minister, and he and his brother founded Law and Justice the next year. His party promises a "strong" state and higher social benefits...
BORN. To Danuta Walesa, 36, and her husband Lech Walesa, 42, leader of Poland's outlawed independent union, Solidarity, and winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Peace, now working most of the time at his old job as an electrician at the Lenin Shipyard: their eighth child, fourth daughter; in Gdansk. Name: Brygida Katarzyna. Weight...
...name John Paul II Person of the Year in late 1994, I and several colleagues traveled to Rome to talk with him. He was still quite vigorous then, and noted during our audience at the Vatican that though he realized that in the past TIME had picked Lech Walesa and Pope John XXIII, the magazine also had selected Stalin and Hitler. One of my colleagues remarked wryly that TIME actually kept two lists--one good and one bad--and that he was on the good list. "I hope I always remain on the good list," said the Pope with...