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Harvard administrators say they also verified Walesa's acceptance through an intermediary with access to Walesa, apparently one of the two journalists...
...Walesa's case, University officials suspected immediate publicity might be useful in clearing the way for Walesa to travel to Harvard. An early announcement, they reasoned, might cause pressure to accumulate against the Polish Communist authorities, making it increasingly awkward for them to deny Walesa the permission he would need to make the trip to Cambridge...
Aloian contacted one of the journalist intermediaries and asked him to float by Walesa the possibility of an early announcement. "He told us it would help the chances of his coming over if we released the news early." So in the first week of April. Harvard's news office issued a press release about Walesa's acceptance--"largely to accommodate his request," Aloian says...
...number of theories emerged to explain Walesa's new assertion. Many Poland specialists agreed that Walesa's own words in the UPI interview held the key to his reluctance to travel: "I cannot go without being sure whether I can come back or not." The real obstacle to Walesa's visit, experts said, did not center on obtaining a visa to the United States, however much the Polish authorities may have disliked the prospect of the labor leader decrying the Communist regime in a well-publicized Western speech...
Rather, in the long run, said specialists, Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski's government was probably eager to see Walesa leave permanently, thereby weakening his still-powerful influence on the nation's leaders. Fear of being blocked from returning to his home country appeared to be the principal factor behind Walesa's resolve to stay in Poland...