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Paunchier, but stubborn as ever, Walesa meets his seventh child
When Maria Victoria Walesa was christened in Gdansk on March 21, more than 10,000 people gathered in the bright sunny weather at the Church of God's Providence to commemorate the occasion. But in the sanctuary there was one conspicuously empty chair. It symbolized the absence of the baby's father, who had never seen his seventh child. Last week, as shown by photographs obtained exclusively by ABC's World News Tonight, Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa finally got to hold his two-month-old daughter in his arms. His wife Danuta and Maria Victoria were allowed...
Since martial law was proclaimed last December, Walesa's walrus mustache has been engulfed by a full beard, which he promised his wife he would shave off when he was allowed to resume a normal life. Otherwise, she has been telling friends, he has suffered no ill effects except for occasional insomnia. He keeps busy by reading and, to Danuta's distress, continues to smoke heavily. The lack of activity has given him a bit of a paunch...
...name is Maria Victoria Walesa, and since her birth on Jan. 27 the infant daughter of Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, 38, has received more attention than any other child born in recent Polish history. From just about everyone, that is, except her father. Interned by Polish military authorities-at a villa near Warsaw-since Dec. 13, Walesa has missed the early weeks of life of his seventh child. News of Maria Victoria's scheduled christening this past weekend near Gdansk was followed closely by millions of Poles. To perk up her own spirits-and maybe even Baby Maria Victoria...
...Western attempts to encourage moderation seem to be having little effect on Warsaw. Hardening their position on the future of Solidarity, Polish authorities launched their first full-scale propaganda attack on Union Leader Lech Walesa, who is still interned in a government villa near the capital. The army daily Zolnierz Wolnosci accused Walesa and other union leaders of deciding in December that "the gallows have to be built" for the Communists. The union leader was personally denounced by the Polish Press Agency as a "front for the anti-Communist crusade" and a traitor to "working-class interests." In an interview...