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...Paul's 1978 election, followed the Pontiff's preflight preparations, then accompanied him on the trip to Poland. Paris Correspondent Thomas A. Sancton, a former associate editor who wrote many of TIME's stories about Solidarity, including the 1981 Man of the Year cover on Lech Walesa, was in Poland, an eyewitness to the spontaneous demonstrations along the Pope's route. Says Sancton: "It is impossible to be indifferent to those sentiments of religiosity and nationalism that have been behind the events of the past three years and that are underscored by John Paul...
...second moment of high drama in the Pope's eight-day pilgrimage to his homeland was expected to occur this week, when he met with Lech Walesa, the ebullient, mustachioed electrician who has become an international symbol of the outlawed Solidarity movement. The Pope's conversations with the two main protagonists on the Polish scene would accent the central position that the church continues to occupy there. The visit also underscored the Pope's moral authority. Initially, the government had refused to allow Walesa to see him. It relented only after John Paul insisted upon the session...
...despite the staggered stages of political development, the two regions have expressed similar ideas about such development. Both Walesa and Fuentes implied that such progress is not ideological and thus unattainable, but inherent in human nature. Walesa pointed his argument towards the hard line bi-polar view of the Soviet Union, arguing that "the workers starting the strike and the process of transformation did not refer to the classics of Marxism-Leninism. They referred to the simplest natural rights due man upon his very birth in accordance with common sense." In turn, Fuentes aimed the same observations at the equally...
...BOTH FUENTES AND WALESA stressed how nationalistic passion led to the inevitable development of self-determination. "We do not have to overthrow the system," the Solidarity leader argued, because "it is weaker than the national self-awareness, it either shrinks before it or absorbs it." Fuentes observed that "today, we are on the verge of transcending this [ideological] dilemma by recasting it as an opportunity, at last, to be ourselves--societies neither new nor old, but, simply, authentically, Latin American as...the benefits and the disadvantages of a tradition that now seems richer and more acceptable than...
...only major point the two differed on was the role this country plays. After outlining his strong optimism for the prevalence of freedom, Walesa concluded that "it is precisely such ideals that unite us, the people of America and Poland." But, unfortunately, the last word went to Fuentes, who asked why, paradoxically, the United States did not feel the same towards its southern neighbors as it does towards Poland: "Are we to be considered your true friends, only if we are ruled by right-wing, anti-Communist despotism's?... How can we live and grow together on the basis...