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Lech Walesa
Lech Wałęsa , 1943-, Polish labor and political leader. He worked as an electrician at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk but was dismissed in 1976 for his antigovernment protests. In 1980 striking workers at the shipyard won his reinstatement, and he assumed leadership of the independent... Read more |
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Ostroleka
Ostrołęka , Rus. Ostrolenka, town (1993 est. pop. 52,400), Mazowieckie prov., NE Poland, on the Narew River. It is a railway junction and a manufacturing center where pulp and paper, lumber, and foodstuffs are produced. Chartered in 1427, it passed to Prussia in 1795 and to Russia in... Read more |
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Radom
Radom , city (1993 est. pop. 230,500), Mazowieckie prov., SE Poland. It is a railway junction and an industrial center. The main products are textiles, glassware, chemicals, and processed food. One of the oldest Polish settlements, Radom probably originated as an assembly place for local diets. Its... Read more |
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Warsaw
Warsaw , Pol. Warszawa, city (1993 est. pop. 1,655,700), capital of Poland and of Mazowieckie prov., central Poland, on both banks of the Vistula River. It is a political, cultural, and industrial center, a major transportation hub, and one of Europe's great historic cities. Among its many... Read more |
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Tadeusz Kosciuszko
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Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko
Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kościuszko Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kościuszko (1746-1817) was a Polish patriot and a hero in the American Revolution. Tadeusz Kościuszko was born on Feb. 12, 1746, in the grand duchy of Lithuania, Poland. A member of the small-gentry class,... Read more |
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Adam Mickiewicz
Adam Mickiewicz A poet and Polish nationalist, Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (1798–1855) occupies a central position in the literature of his country. Polish students study and memorize his epic poem Pan Tadeusz (Master Thaddeus), and his writings have effectively connected the cause of Polish... Read more |
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Baird, Tadeusz
Baird, Tadeusz (b Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland, 1928; d Warsaw, 1981). Polish composer. Several of post–1956 works use 12-note procedures. Works incl... |
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WałĘsa, Lech
...Increasingly on the right wing of the movement and with the full power of the Church behind him, he defeated Tadeusz Mazowiecki in the presidential election of November 1990. Throughout Wałęsa's term of office, his governments grappled... |
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Solidarity makes a choice; Mazowiecki's obstacles. (Tadeusz Mazowiecki)
...against the move from the start. Two days after Tadeusz Mazowiecki took office, young radicals confronting the...outside the Soviet Embassy in Warsaw cried, "Mazowiecki Sowiecki" (Mazowiecki the Soviet). But these were the malcontents... |
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Poland to assist in Soviet Jewish emigration; Prime Minister tells Jewish...
...Poland's Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki told some 500 members of the...terrorist groups, Prime Minister Mazowiecki's announcement drew cheers...his remarks, Prime Minister Mazowiecki appealed to Jews to remember... |
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"GERMANY AND POLAND - OVERCOMING BORDERS" HANS-DIETRICH GENSCHER AND TADEUSZ...
...The following information was released by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany: Former Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and former German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher will meet in the Federal Foreign Office on Friday for... |
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Polish Prime Minister to be honored by Jews. (Tadeusz Mazowiecki, American...
...ASSIGNMENT DESKS: POLISH PRIME MINISTER TO BE HONORED BY JEWS During his first State visit, Poland's Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, who will be arriving in Washington on Tuesday, March 20, will be honored by heads of the Jewish community at... |
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Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Poland's first post-communist PM, in car crash
...2004 Dateline: WARSAW, PolandTadeusz Mazowiecki, Poland's first post-communist...happened Wednesday in downtown Warsaw and Mazowiecki was taken to a government clinic, police...agency said, but gave no details. Mazowiecki, a member of the center-right Freedom... |
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Poland chooses - what's at stake. (presidential election between Lech Walesa...
...measure of agreement between Walesa and Mazowiecki over fundamental economic policy. That...differences. Walesa began by accusing the Mazowiecki governmemt of acting too slowly, yet...ethnic, to "true Catholic Poles"; Mazowiecki and his colleagues refer to the principles... |
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SKETCHES OF THREE MAIN CANDIDATES LECH WALESA TADEUSZ MAZOWIECKI STANISLAW...
...killings of striking workers, he was barred from re-election. Mazowiecki joined Walesa in the early days of Solidarity in August 1980...prosecutors launched a slander investigation after he accused Mazowiecki of treason against the nation. CAPTION(S): PHOTO PHOTO |
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Polish prime minister and Jewish leaders to hold press conference. (Tadeusz...
...local time following a meeting with Polish Prime Minister Mazowiecki. The press conference will take place at the Prime Minister...office in Warsaw. This is the first time that Prime Minister Mazowiecki will be meeting with American Jewish leaders and it is expected... |
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Mazowiecki Is Elected in Poland; First Non-Communist in 45 Years
Solidarity adviser Tadeusz Mazowiecki won overwhelming election in parliament...government in the Warsaw Pact. Mazowiecki appealed to Poles for their patience...Communist deputies voted to approve Mazowiecki, and the outgoing Communist ministers... |
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Mazowiecki Agrees to Run For President Against Walesa
Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki agreed today to run for president...best-known politicians. When Mazowiecki became the first non-Communist...Since then, Walesa has accused Mazowiecki's government of being too slow... |
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