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...Every death is painful, but this one is especially brutal. It will not be forgotten." As the telegram from Lech Walesa, founder of the outlawed independent trade union Solidarity, was read, a hush fell over the mourners who had gathered in Warsaw's St. Stanislaw Kostka Roman Catholic Church last week. Then they burst into applause. The funeral was for Grzegorz Przemyk, 19, a high school senior who died of injuries received from a severe beating by Polish militiamen. His death quickly became a rallying cause for Poles who hate the regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski...
...make possible things that were once thought impossible, to rearrange what the Soviets call the correlation of forces, to change the terms of reality, debate and thus ultimately negotiation. Far from excluding negotiations, a primary purpose of these wars was to alter their terms. When Jaruzelski talks to Walesa, Britain to Argentina, and Israel to the Palestinians, as in the long run they must, the grounds will have changed. Walesa has indicated his willingness to accept the new "political realities" if the regime softens its line. Argentina will at best be in a position to ask for a gradual transition...
...Officials confirmed last week that the Pope had asked them to grant amnesty to all political prisoners before his arrival on June 16. The government refused, on the ground that this would not be "beneficial to public order." At week's end police seized former Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa and several aides in Warsaw. The "charge": meeting secretly with other members of the banned labor union and attempting to draft a letter to the Polish parliament. Police promptly drove Walesa to his home in Gdansk, 220 miles away, where they increased the security around his apartment and prevented...
...April a new thing appeared. Radio Free Europe announced that Walesa accepted the invitation of Harvard University where he is supposed to hold a speech. . . However, on the same day in the evening, RFE hastily announces that contrary to the previous announcement. Walesa decided not to accept the invitation. The UPI adds that in a telephone interview Walesa says that he cannot leave Poland (surely it will collapse without...
...have everything there is on the person of Walesa, his 'hard situation in Poland,' and this speech to the poor knowledge-hungry professors and doctors of Harvard. In its own way it's interesting what this learned group of scholars would like to learn from Walesa, who in an interview with Oriana Fallaci said with pride 'he had never read any book...