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Article: Lunch With Lech Walesa
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- The Washington Post
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- July 21, 1987
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Flying anywhere can be unpleasant these days, but taking Polish
Airlines from Warsaw to Gdansk is downright horrific. Searching
scrutiny upon boarding, perhaps a hassle over the fact that one has
film in his camera (as I did), a requirement that passengers ask
permission of the flight attendant before they can get up to go to
the bathroom (an anti-hijack precaution)-these were just a few of the
amenities on our recent flight. In this case, though, it was worth
it because we were going to see Lech Walesa, leader of the now-banned
Solidarity movement.
We met Walesa, who had just finished his 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. shift
as an electrician at the Gdansk Shipyard, over lunch at the residence
of the ...