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...ranks of the jobless continue to swell, the nation might produce a new brand of Solidarity with a Lech Walesa waiting in the wings...
After one such visit, a clergyman last week reported Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa to be in "perfect" mental health and "full of enthusiasm." The priest, Henryk Jankowski of Gdansk, was allowed to meet with Walesa to arrange the baptism of his seventh child, Maria Victoria, born on Jan. 27. Walesa, who is reportedly being held in a government guest house near Warsaw, said that he expected to be freed in time for the March 7 christening ceremony. He also gave the priest a brief note saying that all previous appeals attributed to him had been "provocatively fabricated." Wrote Walesa...
Glemp pins his hopes on a peaceful dialogue between the regime and the outlawed union. Polish authorities have indicated that they are ready to begin serious talks soon. But the key figure in any such negotiations, Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, has been held virtually incommunicado since martial law was declared on Dec. 13. Walesa, who has reportedly been held at four locations near Warsaw, has managed to smuggle out several messages, although their authenticity cannot be confirmed. The Warsaw branch of Solidarity's underground last week published what it said was a letter that Walesa had scrawled...
Unbaptized, unnamed, and as yet unseen by her father, the tiny raven-haired baby-the seventh child-was born in Gdansk, Poland, on Jan. 27. Her father, Lech Walesa, 38, was far away, interned by the Polish military authorities reportedly in a guesthouse outside Warsaw. The photograph of his wife Danuta and their child, the first known to exist, was taken by a Solidarity photographer and smuggled out to the West. The archbishop of Wroclaw, Henryk Gulbinowicz, is trying to organize a baptism for the infant with the entire Walesa clan in attendance. As for whether the proud father would...
...earth. When' Poland began its brief flirtation with dignity two years ago, everyone knew it was only a matter of days before the Soviets took exception A matter of days attached into a matters of weeks, but, still, who could believe? And then, at time wore on, as Lach Walesa grained and workers demanded and freedom eroded some of the ugliness, hope began to rise, It started out as hope against hope, but by last fall had become almost cockiness: Solidarity had survived so many confrontations that surely it would once more sidestep the crevasse. When the inevitable happened...