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Last year, the Mexican author Carlos Puentes was named Commencement speaker on May 19, a mere three weeks before the ceremonies, after a much-publicized offer to Polish union leader Lech Walesa fell through (See story below...
...bluntly told the government of dirt-poor Haiti, "Something must change here." In Poland he met with General Wojciech Jaruzelski and called for the unshackling of Solidarity, the banned labor union. He also met privately with his native country's most celebrated nonperson, Nobel Peace Prizewinner Lech Walesa...
Before an audience of 450 in the University of Oslo's bright, marble-pillared Aula, or Great Hall, Nobel Committee Chairman Egil Aarvik lavished praise on the recipient of the 64th Nobel Peace Prize. Lech Walesa, said Aarvik, had raised "a burning torch, a shining name" to humanity's enduring dreams of freedom. Walesa, leader of Solidarity, the outlawed Polish independent trade union, did not hear those words. He had stayed behind in Gdansk for fear that the government would not allow him back into Poland...
...Walesa's wife Danuta made the trip, however, and after Aarvik spoke, she rose to deliver a 15-minute speech written by her husband. "On this solemn day, my place is among those with whom I have grown and to whom I belong, the workers of Gdansk," she read. "We crave for justice, and that is why we are so persistent in the struggle for our rights." After listening to a radio broadcast of the ceremony, Walesa declared, "We should use peaceful means to solve our problems...
...Derek Bok, here's an envelope, scaled; Inside it says only, "We've narrowed the field." But we heard just last night, and we think it just keen That he's picked Lech Walesa as Faculty Dean. To Henry Rosovsky, some fruit salad's come: His Core's found in apples; his new chair's a plum. Hugh Culkins--we bring a Hey Hey and Ho Ho. Just one more reminder: That's stock's got to go. To veep Robin Schmidt and George Putnam as well On Mass Hall's behalf we'll just bid you farewell. Here...