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TMCnet, 8 hours 13 minutes ago / Solidarity founder and former Polish President Lech Walesa said Tuesday that 30 years after his trade union movement paved the way for massive democratic reforms that brought communism to its knees across Eastern Europe, Poland is dragging its feet on changes it needs to help it catch up with its western European neighbors.
TMCnet, Sep 02, 2010 / Solidarity founder Lech Walesa shunned several of the movement's 30th anniversary sessions Monday, saying he is tired and disillusioned with the Polish trade union's current state.
Santa Maria Times - Santa Maria CA, Aug 31, 2010 / Solidarity founder and former Polish President Lech Walesa said Tuesday that 30 years after his trade union movement paved the way for massive democratic reforms that brought communism to its knees across Eastern Europe, Poland is dragging its feet on changes it needs to help it catch up with its western European neighbors.
Tulsa World - Tulsa OK, Aug 31, 2010 / Solidarity founder Lech Walesa shunned several of the movement's 30th anniversary sessions Monday, saying he is tired and disillusioned with the Polish trade union's current state.
TheNews.pl - Poland, Aug 29, 2010 / Prime Minister Donald Tusk, accompanied by former president and Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, laid flowers at the Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Worker in Gdansk on Sunday, as part of the 30 year anniversary celebrations of the historic 1980 August Agreements.
Taipei Times, Aug 28, 2010 / Three decades after Polish trade union Solidarity rocked the Soviet bloc, the world has yet to come to terms with the end of the Cold War, the movement's iconic founder Lech Walesa says.
TheNews.pl - Poland, Aug 27, 2010 / Former president and founder of the Solidarity trade union, Lech Walesa has pulled out of the 30th anniversary celebrations in the north-western port of Szczecin, commemorating the signing of the August Agreements.
EUbusiness - UK, Aug 18, 2010 / Turkey must be admitted to the European Union, Poland's former president and Nobel laureate Lech Walesa insisted on Wednesday.
Telegraph - London - UK, Aug 24, 2010/ The attack comes amid two days of fighting that have killed at least 40 civilians and wounded more than 130 in the capital according to Ali Muse, the head of Mogadishu's ambulance service.
The Seattle Times - Seattle WA, Aug 24, 2010/ A small passenger plane heading to the Mount Everest region crashed in heavy rain Tuesday outside Nepal's capital, killing all 14 people aboard, including four Americans, a Briton and a Japanese national, officials said.
MarketWatch, Aug 24, 2010/ Scottish-headquartered oil exploration group Cairn Energy reported Tuesday that it sharply reduced net losses for the first half of the year, saying its first well in Greenland is showing signs of promise.
The Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach FL, Aug 24, 2010/ World stock markets retreated Tuesday as the strong yen knocked Japanese shares and investors anticipated more bad news from U.S. economic reports this week.
The Daily Mirror - London - UK, Aug 24, 2010/ Two Britons were rescued from a horrifying bus siege in which eight hostages died yesterday after a sacked policeman made a crazed attempt to get his job back.
Lech Wałęsa ( ; born 29 September 1943) is a Polish politician, trade-union organizer, and human-rights activist.
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