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...likens the situation to a politicalcartoon he saw that depicted Poland before thereforms as a "plane that was flaming out with bothengines on fire." In the drawing, then-Polishleader General Jaruzelski is walking to the backof the plane holding a broken-off steering wheel."He leans over to Lech Walesa and says, `Okay, youtry and run this plane...
Lewandowski lives in Gdansk, where the Solidarity movement was born during widespread strikes a decade ago. An early activist in the movement, Lewandowski describes himself as a top advisor on economic policy to Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa until he began his own political party, a splinter party of the Solidarity movement which will support Walesa in the November elections...
...Polish professor also criticized the American media for unfairly portraying Walesa...
...Walesa's keen political sense that has propelled him to the leadership of the Solidarity movement, the visiting scholar said...
...Walesa, his longtime opponent and the only candidate so far to declare for the presidential elections likely to be held in December, has far less modest views of himself. But whether he will ultimately be able to shape Poland's fate any more than Jaruzelski did may depend less on his skills than on geopolitics. The Soviet bear may be hibernating, but the German eagle is soaring in an ever widening economic gyre...