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	Lech Walesa hero file (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Walesa emerges as one of the leaders of the shipyard workers and is briefly detained.
		Walesa is elected as the movement's chairman and chief spokesman, a position he holds until 1990, although he does not escape criticism for his willingness to compromise with the government without consulting the rank and file.
		Walesa calls for elections in the first half of 1991 but is forced by the parliament to accept a later date and a proportional representation voting system that will do nothing to alleviate parliamentary factionalism.
	www.moreorless.au.com /heroes/walesa.htm (3525 words)

	Activists / Lech Walesa Posters
		Lech Walesa was born on September 29, 1943 in Popowo, Poland.
		The authorities were forced to capitulate and to negotiate with Walesa the Gdansk Agreement of August 31, 1980, which gave the workers the right to strike and to organise their own independent union.
		In November 1982 Walesa was released and reinstated at the Gdansk shipyards.
	mhizli.tripod.com /activism/lech_walesa.htm (610 words)

	Commanding Heights : Lech Walesa \| on PBS
		Walesa won the presidency in 1990 and held it until 1995.
		Walesa was one of eight children born into a Catholic worker-peasant family in Popowa, a village between Warsaw, the capital of Poland, and Gdansk, on the Baltic coast.
		When Walesa stood for election as president in October 1990, he was challenged by his own prime minister, Mazowiecki, and a Polish-Canadian businessman, Stanislaw Tyminski.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitextlo/prof_lechwalesa.html (589 words)

	Lech Walesa,Legend,Lech Walesa,Without Walesa, the occupation strike in the Lenin Shipyard ,Heros,Legends,by Timothy ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Walesa's contribution to the end of communism in Europe, and hence the end of Cold War, stands beside those of his fellow Pole Pope John Paul II, and the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
		Walesa - known to almost everyone as Lech - was foxy, unpredictable, often infuriating, but he has a natural genius for politics, a matchless ability for sensing popular moods, and great powers of swaying a crowd.
		Walesa went back to Gdansk, to his villa, his wife, Danuta, and their eight children.
	www.4to40.com /legends/index.asp?article=legends_lechwalesa (1082 words)

	Lech Walesa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1968 he married Danuta Wałęsowa, and the couple now have 8 children.
		He was a member of the illegal strike committee in Gdańsk Shipyard in 1970.
		He was unable to receive the prize himself, fearing that the government would not let him back in, so his wife Danuta Wałęsowa received the prize in his place.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Lech_Walesa (1626 words)

	Lech Walesa
		Walesa, the son of a carpenter, received only primary and vocational education and in 1967 began work as an electrician at the huge Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk.
		Walesa helped his Solidarity colleague Tadeusz Mazowiecki become premier of this government in 1989, but he ran against Mazowiecki for president in 1990 and won Poland's first direct presidential election by a landslide.
		Walesa had displayed remarkable political skills as the leader of Solidarity, but his plain speech, his confrontational style, and his refusal to approve a relaxation of Poland's strict new prohibitions on abortion eroded his popularity late in his term as president.
	www.nobel-winners.com /Peace/lech_walesa.html (720 words)

	Lech Walesa en El Espectador
		Walesa fue designado como líder de un comité de huelga que negociaba con la dirección del astillero.
		Walesa aceptó y se formó un comité inter-empresarial de huelga que abarcó las plantas de Gdansk, Sopot y Gdynia, que lanzó de inmediato una huelga general.
		El 31 de agosto de ese año 1980, Walesa y el gobierno firmaron un acuerdo que concedió a los obreros varias de sus reivindicaciones: el derecho a organizarse de manera libre e independiente, y concesiones en cuanto a aumentos de salarios y mayor libertad de expresión en materia política y religiosa.
	www.espectador.com /text/walesa/walbiog.htm (807 words)

	Walesa Issues Threat As Election Heats Up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Walesa said his whole family including his wife, Danuta, had less than half a million dollars left.
		In an interview published Tuesday, Walesa said he was unhappy that he had finished behind Kwasniewski, but indicated he expected to form a political bloc and win the runoff.
		Walesa has already received strong endorsement from the centrist Freedom Union Party, led by his former collaborators from Solidarity.
	dev.themoscowtimes.com /stories/1995/11/09/018.html (491 words)

	H.E. Lech Walesa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In September of 1981, Walesa was elected as the leader of Solidarity at the First National Solidarity Congress in Gdansk.
		After the imposition of martial law by General Jaruzelski, Walesa was interned on the night of 13 December 1981, and kept in isolation for nearly 12 months.
		Walesa began a series of meetings in Poland and abroad with State leaders and outstanding politicians.
	www.thepathtopeacefoundation.org /walesa.html (771 words)

	FORUM: Lech Walesa
		Lech Walesa, the feisty, mustachioed electrician from Gdansk, shaped the 20th century as the leader of the Solidarity movement that led the Poles out of communism.
		Walesa's life, like those of Gorbachev and the Pope, was shaped by communism.
		Walesa — known to almost everyone simply as Lech — was foxy, unpredictable, and often infuriating, but he had a natural genius for politics, a matchless ability for sensing popular moods, and great powers of swaying a crowd.
	ksgnotes1.harvard.edu /ksginfo/enews.nsf/details/4AD3DDD667CC314385256DA50009D0DD (1076 words)

	Sindicato Solidaridad de Polonia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		En cuanto al sindicato propiamente dicho, Walesa se impuso sin dificultad como nuevo presidente (con el 77% de los votos), a pesar de haber recibido críticas sobre su excesivo personalismo y haber tenido que rechazar la propuesta de Mazowiecki que preconizaba una estructura menos centralizada en los máximos órganos del sindicato.
		Walesa desempeñó un destacado papel en la formación, en Polonia, de un gobierno de coalición liderado por Solidaridad en 1989, después de las elecciones multipartidistas de ese año.
		Walesa es investido presidente, en un acto simbólico de ruptura con el Comunismo tras haber pasado unas jornadas en "retiro espiritual".
	html.rincondelvago.com /sindicato-solidaridad-de-polonia.html (10592 words)

	Lech Walesa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1969 he married Danuta Gołoś, and the couple now have 8 children.
		In May 10, 2004, the Gdańsk international airport has been officially renamed to Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport to commemorate the famous Gdańsk citizen.
		A month later, Walesa went to the U.S., representing Poland at the state funeral of Ronald Reagan, who like Walesa, played a significant role with in dissolving the Soviet bloc.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Lech_Walesa (1178 words)

	www.ilw.org.pl - Fundation - Lech Walesa Institute
		A casual photo of Lech Walesa picturing his courteous visit to one of the Dutch brewery was inserted in the newspaper with its pretty unequivocal annotation distorting the idea of the meeting.
		Lech Walesa invited by local government, non governmental milieus and private entities visited Holland on 23-26 May. President gave an extensive interview to one of the regional newspapers and took part in a conference concerning free flow of labor in the European Union.
		During the ceremony Lech Walesa, accompanied by his wife, Danuta, and his son, Jaroslaw, unveiled the new logo of the airport that is the Lech Walesa signature with the inscription "Gdansk - Lech Walesa - Airport".
	www.ilw.org.pl /english/archive_news.html (4438 words)

	The Oakland Post - Web Edition
		Walesa, 58, was the thorn in the side of the Russian regime that finally ended the 40-year Communist hold over Poland, and allowed the Polish people to once again govern themselves.
		Walesa (pronounced Vah-wehn-sah) was born on Sept. 29, 1943, in the small Polish village of Popowo.
		Walesa was elected President of Poland in 1990 but was defeated in 1995.
	www.oakland.edu /post/102401 (2158 words)

	Lech Walesa - masalto.com
		Walesa realizó sus estudios en una escuela de oficios y comenzó a trabajar como mecánico de maquinaria agrícola.
		Walesa aceptó y se formó un comité interempresarial entre las plantas de Gdansk, Sopot y Gdynia, que lanzó de inmediato una huelga general.
		El 31 de agosto de ese año, Walesa y el gobierno firmaron un acuerdo que les dio a los obreros varios derechos: el derecho a organizarse de manera libre e independiente, concesiones en cuanto a aumentos de salarios y mayor libertad de expresión en materia política y religiosa.
	www.masalto.com /tinmarin/template_ninosarticulo.phtml?consecutivo=3366&subsecc=2&cat=50&subcat=187&subj=&pais= (552 words)

	Protesters challenge Polish vote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Walesa's backers and a number of people who voted for Kwasniewski argued that he had deceived voters by suggesting he held a university degree.
		Danuta Waniek, who headed Kwasniewski's campaign, defended the newly elected president's truthfulness.
		Walesa's campaign staff also filed protests alleging falsified results from several polling stations.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/95/11/25/poland.html (286 words)

	Genderstudies
		Walesa did not involve his wife in his oppositional work limiting the sphere of her activity by family duties: "I consciously did not make Danuta my comrade."(Walesa 1990).
		Danuta supported her husband in all his undertakings, but she was not practically involved in his work until the introduction of the martial law in December 1981.
		The image of Danuta Walesa, a selfless mother and wife, was percieved by Poles as a symbol of revival of Catholic traditions, opposed to a foisted image of a socialistic woman.
	www.genderstudies.info /english/eng_text8.php (3816 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Walesa sheds his whiskers
		Lech Walesa, who led the banned Solidarity trade union movement in defiance of the communist authorities in Warsaw, has shaved off his famous drooping moustache.
		Mr Walesa has not shaved his upper lip since he first shot to fame at the head of striking shipyard workers in Gdansk in the early 1980s, although he frequently trimmed his moustache during his five-year term as Poland's president a decade later.
		A spokeswoman for Mr Walesa told AFP news agency he had taken the plunge because of irritation caused by the intense heat.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/2179017.stm (274 words)

	Top Down or Bottom Up?
		Walesa, a peasant turned worker, was symbolic of a working class in rapid transition.
		(Walesa, incidentally, served his political apprenticeship on a committee for the establishment of free labor unions, sponsored by KOR.) The assistance of the intellectuals helped the strikers broaden their platform beyond their immediate demands.
		Walesa and his closest advisers, always conscious of the danger, were seeking a compromise between the categorical imperatives of geography, which dictated the rule of the Communist Party, and the pressures of a vast social movement.
	www.thenation.com /docprint.mhtml?i=19870606&s=singer (2079 words)

	www.ilw.org.pl - Fundation - Lech Walesa Institute
		All the Lech Walesa and his Institute's activities aim at consolidating democracy and the free market economy in Poland, as well as at permanently integrating Poland into European structures.
		Lech Walesa is active in socio-political life in Poland and abroad.
		All that had been known was that Lech Walesa was going to participate in it carrying the Olympic flag as a representative of Europe.
	www.ilw.org.pl /english/otfundr.html (848 words)

	Lech Walesa Article, LechWalesa Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		From that time on he has beenlecturing on the history and politics of Central Europe at variousforeign universities.
		There was some controversy if the name should be spelled Lech Walesa (without diacritics, but betterrecognizable in the world) or Lech Wałęsa (with Polish letters, but difficult to write and pronounce forforeigners).
		Lech Wałęsa has been married since 1968 to Danuta Wałęsowa and has 7children.
	www.anoca.org /wa/he/lech_walesa.html (1101 words)

	Danuta Wałęsa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Lech Wałęsa.
		Danuta Wałęsa, maiden name Mirosława Danuta Gołoś (born 1950), is the wife of the former President of Poland Lech Wałęsa.
		They have been married since September 8, 1969 and have eight children.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Danuta_Walesa (112 words)

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		In the years 1980-81 Walesa travelled to Italy, Japan, Sweden, France and Switzerland as guest of the HYPERLINK "http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1969/index.html" International Labour Organisation.
		Walesa has been granted many honorary degrees from universities, including HYPERLINK "http://www.harvard.edu/" \t "_blank" Harvard University and the HYPERLINK "http://www.univ-paris8.fr/" \t "_blank" University of Paris.
		Lech Walesa — Acceptance Speech HYPERLINK "http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1983/" \l "not" Translation Your Majesty, Honourable Representatives of the Norwegian people,You are aware of the reasons why I could not come to your Capital city and receive personally this distinguished prize.
	aix1.uottawa.ca /~nstaman/alternatives/Nobels/TheNobelPeacePrize1983.doc (1096 words)

	Walesa
		On August 14, 1980, during protests at the Lenin shipyards caused by an increase in food prices, Walesa climbed over the shipyard fence and joined the workers inside, who elected him head of a strike committee to negotiate with management.
		The federation's gains proved ephemeral, however; on December 13, 1981, the Polish government imposed martial law, Solidarity was outlawed, and most of the leaders of Solidarity were arrested, including Walesa, who was detained for nearly a year.
		The awarding of the Nobel Prize for Peace to Walesa in 1983 was criticized by the Polish government; fearing involuntary exile, he remained in Poland while his wife, Danuta, traveled to Oslo, Norway, to accept the prize on his ehalf.
	www.schabowy.com /OutstandingPoles/walesa.htm (679 words)

	CBS News \| The Odd Truth, Aug. 8, 2002 \| August 9, 2002 12:33:12
		Walesa's drooping walrus moustache became a symbol of defiance when he refused to shave during the Gdansk shipyard strikes of 1980 that marked the beginning of the end for Soviet-backed communist rule.
		Walesa, 58, did crop his graying moustache during his five-year stint as Poland's president in the early 1990s but, until this week, never went all the way.
		Wife Danuta said Walesa had shaved the moustache without telling her.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/08/09/national/main518181.shtml (1182 words)

	Walesa, Lech
		The charismatic leader of millions of Polish workers, he went on to become the president of Poland (1990-95) and received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1983.
		Fearing a national revolt, the communist authorities yielded to the workers' principal demands, and on August 31 Walesa and Mieczyslaw Jagielski, Poland's first deputy premier, signed an agreement conceding to the workers the right to organize freely and independently.
		As the leader of the now-underground Solidarity movement, Walesa was subjected to constant harassment until collapsing economic
	www.britannica.com /nobel/micro/629_24.html (700 words)

	The Finnish Film Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The documentary gives a unique insight into both Lech Walesa´s persona, background as well as the political events and their backgrounds during the rise-and-times of the Solidarity-movement.
		Danuta Walesa´s interview opens - for the first time - perspective into the personal life of, and private person Lech Walesa.
		A documentary which has Lech Walesa´s complete account on his backgrounds and role as the leadfigure of the 10.000.000 member Solidarity-opposition-movement.
	www.ses.fi /en/film.asp?id=374 (161 words)

	Lech Walesa turns 60, throws last big birthday party
		"We have been celebrating his birthdays since the strike," Danuta Walesa, the wife of the former Polish president said in a recent interview with the daily Rzeczpospolita, referring to the 1980 shipyard strikes in the northern city of Gdansk which paved the way for the fall of communism.
		Among the birthday greetings Walesa received on Monday was from German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who pointed to his contribution to "ending the division of the European continent".
		Although Walesa has remained on the sidelines of the political scene since being ousted as president in 1995 by Aleksander Kwasniewski, he has not ruled out standing in the next presidential elections in 2005.
	quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/an/Qpoland-people.RsT4_DST.html (228 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- "We Crave for Justice" -- Dec. 19, 1983
		Lech Walesa, said Aarvik, had raised "a burning torch, a shining name" to humanity's enduring dreams of freedom.
		Walesa, leader of Solidarity, the outlawed Polish independent trade union, did not hear those words.
		Walesa's wife Danuta made the trip, however, and after Aarvik spoke, she rose to deliver a 15-minute speech written by her husband.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,949905,00.html (407 words)

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