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Harvard's reputation seemed to be taking a dip when Polish President Lech Walesa, who was then the leader of the Solidarity movement, declined to speak in 1983 after earlier agreeing...
Worse yet, the Polish Communist Party newspaper decided to comment on Harvard's invitation by saying, "By the way, I wonder what this learned group wanted to hear from Walesa, a man who had proudly announced in an interview with Oriana Fallaci that he had...never read a single book from cover to cover...
...view of some, virtually omnipotent. Bishops and priests bless the armed forces, schools and factories. The newly created post of superior chaplain to the army has been given the rank of general. To mark the 200th anniversary of the country's first liberal constitution earlier this month, President Lech Walesa, a devout Catholic, skipped ceremonies at parliament and instead visited the national shrine of the Black Madonna at Jasna Gora...
Poles smarting under shock-therapy economic reforms seemed to look to their chief 1980s crusader against communism as an overnight savior. Walesa adviser Andrzej Machalski cautioned, "We have to get people to understand that reality consists of many small problems, not just one big one named 'the government...
...especially repugnant way, Walesa's campaign smacked of darker impulses. During the first round of voting, Walesa boasted of being a "true Pole" with the "documents to prove it." It sounded like a sly dig at Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the target of whispers that he had Jewish ancestors; he came in a poor third. Mazowiecki is not Jewish, but Walesa made no effort to protest that such an issue had even been raised. To show he is not anti-Semitic, a fairly repentant Walesa last week agreed to sponsor a Holocaust museum memorializing the Nazi killing ground...