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Free Article POLAND: POLAND'S FORMER SOLIDARITY LEADER CALLS FOR NEW MARSHALL PLAN.(Lech Walesa)(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 7/27/2000
Free Article Lech Walesa.(PEOPLE)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 1/13/2006
Free Article Is Poland going Communist? Walesa's time was past.(Lech Walesa)
Magazine article from: Commonweal; 12/15/1995

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POLAND: POLAND'S FORMER SOLIDARITY LEADER CALLS FOR NEW MARSHALL PLAN.(Lech Walesa)(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 7/27/2000; 110 words ; Speaking in Berlin on 18 July, Lech Walesa called on the world's richest countries to draft...face increasingly greater challenges, dpa quoted Walesa as saying. Walesa explained that funds for the assistance could be... Read more
Lech Walesa.(PEOPLE)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 1/13/2006; 90 words ; ...founder of the Solidarity movement Lech Walesa visited Seton Hall University, South...school conferred on him in 1982. Walesa was unable to attend commencement...time would not let him return home. Walesa's Dec. 1 appearance at the World... Read more
Is Poland going Communist? Walesa's time was past.(Lech Walesa)
Magazine article from: Commonweal; 12/15/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...official, defeated incumbent president Lech Walesa, the Nobel-prize winner, hero of...Jacek Kuron organized workers behind Lech Walesa. It was an uneasy alliance from...now seems irretrievably broken. Walesa, after all, is a man who boasts... Read more
POLAND: WALESA MAKES BID TO REGAIN PRESIDENCY.(Lech Walesa)(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 6/27/2000; 127 words ; Lech Walesa, former president and leader of Solidarity...rightist candidate able to win that ballot. Walesa was speaking during the electoral convention...its candidate for the presidential race. Walesa will lead his campaign under the slogan... Read more
POLAND: WALESA PREDICTS PARTING OF THE WAYS WITH SOLIDARITY.(Lech Walesa )(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 2/21/2000; 120 words ; Former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa has criticized politicians from the...Polish media reported on 17 February. Walesa had proposed in the letter to consolidate...Regretfully, our ways seems to be parting, Walesa added on 17 February. Krzaklewski told... Read more
Where Lech Does Tech. (AI in the news).(Nobel Peach Prize winner Lech Walesa)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: AI Magazine; 9/22/2002; 140 words ; ...www.time.com/time). Leading Poland to democracy brought Lech Walesa a Nobel Peace Prize and international acclaim, but he...closely.' But he is catching up. The first corporate board Walesa, 58, has agreed to join is that of NuTech Solutions, a... Read more
The better of two goods. (Lech Walesa's presidential campaign against Tadeusz Mazowiecki in Poland)
Magazine article from: National Review; 12/3/1990; 249 words ; ...Tadeusz Mazowiecki or Solidarity leader Lech Walesa. Whoever wins, Poland will have as...fork-will vote for Mr. Mazowiecki. Mr. Walesa, on the other hand, has some of Ronald...man. Polls suggest that it is Mr. Walesa's optimism, stamina, and enthusiasm... Read more
Polish voters wary of church domination: church choice Walesa loses bid for reelection to former communist. (Lech Walesa, Aleksander Kwasniewski)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 12/15/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...bishops' preferred candidate, the sitting President Lech Walesa. Walesa, a former trade unionist and a traditionalist Catholic...vote at all because they were estranged by President Walesa's style and his autocratic tendencies. Walesa, who certainly... Read more
Lech Walesa calls for agents of change.(Business & Industry)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: For A Change; 10/1/2004; 170 words ; ...laws in the life of a parliament, but a change of mentality is vitally important, and is very hard to bring about,' Lech Walesa, President of Poland from 1990 to 1995, told the conference. The former Gdansk shipyard worker, a Nobel Peace laureate... Read more
Yesterday's heroes. (Pope John Paul II, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Lech Walesa) (On the Right) (Column)
Magazine article from: National Review; 9/26/1994; ; 665 words ; ...removal of one's hat in tribute. Lech Walesa, for a few years, was the truly mythogenic...ill-digested idea of old Russia. Walesa is dismissed by many as a tiresome...shimmered away, Solzhenitsyn and Walesa and the Pope became merely ex-prophets... Read more

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