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Former Union Leader Lech Walesa was in a combative mood last week when three policemen turned up at his apartment in the Polish seaport of Gdansk. The cops wanted to detain him for questioning, but the folk hero of the country's now outlawed Solidarity movement refused to go. His reason: the police could not produce an arrest warrant. Said Walesa: "You should abide by the laws." Momentarily nonplussed, the police retreated, but they returned almost immediately to tell Walesa that they would take him away by force if necessary. Finally, Walesa was whisked to a militia headquarters...
...enigmatic confrontation was brought on by Walesa himself. A day earlier, he dramatically announced that he had just held three days of clandestine meetings with the underground leaders of the banned Solidarity union. The purpose of the meetings, said Walesa, was to examine "the present situation in Poland and to coordinate a common stand...
Polish television announced Walesa's release, saying only that he "did not confirm" the fact of his clandestine meetings. Walesa's wife Danuta, who was later ordered to report for a 2½-hour interrogation session, gave Polish authorities no further information beyond the fact that her husband had been absent from their home for three days and that he was "a grownup person." Even Mieczyslaw Wachowski, Walesa's occasional chauffeur, was called in for questioning by the suspicious police...
True to form, as with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Lech Walesa's only claim to fame and his only achievement is his contribution to the Cold War anticommunist prop, aganda will, had for this alone is he attractive to Harvard, which needs to present its face at least once a year...
...This Walesa is depicted as a savior of unionism is an affront to every American worker and certainly to the millions of unemployed. Mary Ann F. McArdle