Lech Walesa News
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Lech Walesa, a former Polish president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, said he won’t apologize for his comments that homosexuals in parliament should sit behind a wall.
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Former Polish President Lech Walesa , who led the Solidarity labor movement that helped bring down communism, was hospitalized yesterday, private broadcaster TVN24 reported, citing unnamed people close to the former president.
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Former Polish President Lech Walesa , who led the Solidarity labor movement that helped bring down communism, canceled a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama , saying he had other plans.
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Lech Walesa travels to Tunisia today to advise the country’s new leaders on building a democracy after they ousted dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali . Based on Walesa’s experience, the transition may be a long one.
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Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who served time in Czechoslovakia’s communist prisons before leading a revolution that ushered democracy into central Europe and hoisted him into the Czech presidency, has died. He was 75.
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Anna Walentynowicz, a Solidarity activist whose firing started the Gdansk shipyard strike in 1980 and helped spread trade-union activism against the communist regime in Poland, died in the plane crash in Russia today.
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Mitt Romney’s six-day international trip ended as it began, with the candidate’s attempt at a show of statesmanship clouded, this time by an aide’s confrontation with reporters at a war memorial in the Polish capital.
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The scene was classic Washington: diplomats trading gossip and business cards with journalists over hors d’oeuvres; a lawyer chatting up a lobbyist between sips of champagne.
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If these factory strikes continue, China may have to go Communist.
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Everyone remembers how fast EBay, Facebook, YouTube and other websites that have changed our world grew.
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