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Article: It's Walesa again. (Trade union leader Lech Walesa returns to power in Poland)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 3, 1988
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RIOT shields and truncheons were hastily bundled under the table in Poland this week as the government turned to the more subtle tool of dialogue. Six years after he became a non-person and the Solidarity organization of which he is president was banned, the government re-opened contacts with Mr Lech Walesa on August 31 st. Is this the turning of the tide in Poland?
Mr Walesa came to Warsaw from Gdansk, where he had again been leading a strike at the Lenin shipyard. Not only was the shipyard the birthplace of Solidarity, Eastern Europe's first independent trade union, but the new talks came eight years to the day since Solidarity was born. It rose from an earlier ...