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  • Poland criticizes ban on crucifixes in schools 14 Nov 2009 08:14 GMT
    ... schools.” “One shouldn’t count on that. Perhaps elsewhere, but never in Poland,” said Kaczynski. Lech Walesa, the pro-democracy dissident and former president, also defended his country’s right to display a ...

  • A sad day for Indian democracy 14 Nov 2009 06:15 GMT
    ... made irrelevant by the actions of other satellite states, specifically Hungary and Czechoslovakia" . Lech Walesa, in an interview to Der Spiegel on November 6, contends that "it all started ...

  • Berlin Wall: Worst Anniversary Celebration Ever 14 Nov 2009 04:33 GMT
    ... and keep the place from emptying out altogether. The next loudest cheers came for Lech Walesa, the Polish labor leader whose efforts with Solidarity forced free elections in Poland. Third ...

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Re-unification of Germany 14 Nov 2009 05:34 GMT
    ... of toppling the domino stones were Nobel Prize Laureates Muhammad Yunus, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Lech Walesa as well as Former German Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Former ...

  • Walesa and Gorby row 13 Nov 2009 14:55 GMT
    ... a 3-metre-tall Styrofoam replica in Warsaw to cheers and live drum music, anti-communist hero Lech Walesa and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev engaged in a round of tit-for-tat rebukes. After ...

  • Poland Defends Right to Keep Crucifixes in Schools 13 Nov 2009 15:51 GMT
    ... schools." "One shouldn't count on that. Perhaps elsewhere, but never in Poland," said Kaczynski. Lech Walesa, the pro-democracy dissident and former president — himself a believer who often wears a ...

  • Norwegian sanctimony, global folly 13 Nov 2009 01:42 GMT
    ... hence the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to heroes like Andrei Sakharov and Lech Walesa, who resisted the communist colossus with the power of moral truth. But that commitment ...

  • AFP: Nobel laureates honour Annie Lennox 13 Nov 2009 02:01 GMT
    ... on Wednesday, included former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and former Solidarity trade union chief Lech Walesa. Copyright ©AFP 2009. All Rights Reserved. AFP articles contained on the AEGiS web site ...

  • Germany celebrates day Berlin Wall collapsed, paving the way for reunification 13 Nov 2009 06:14 GMT
    ... prominent former East Germans. She was joined there by Gorbachev and Poland's pro-democracy leader, Lech Walesa. Merkel, who grew up in East Germany, thanked Gorbachev for making change possible. She ...

  • 10th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates Meets in Berlin to Pull Down "New Walls, Build Bridges" A 13 Nov 2009 11:30 GMT
    ... Peace Prize winners including former South Africa President F.W. de Klerk, former Polish President Lech Walesa, the father of microcredit Professor Muhammad Yunus, and a leader of the unification of ...

  • 1989-2009: Moving The Berlin Wall To Russia's Borders 13 Nov 2009 11:32 GMT
    ... up to it – Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, George H. W. Bush, Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa – will be reverently eulogized and lionized. Gorbachev will attend the anniversary bash at ...

  • New Polish gallery celebrates Guenter Grass' artwork 13 Nov 2009 12:13 GMT
    ... Waffen-SS - a Nazi combat squadron - during World War II. Poland's former president, Lech Walesa, even wanted to withdraw Grass' status as an honorary citizen of the city of ...

  • Gorbachev, the forgotten hero 13 Nov 2009 15:56 GMT
    ... of the fall of the Berlin Wall, in which he played a key role. Lech Walesa and Hillary Clinton, invited to listen to Daniel Barenboim conduct the Staatskapelle Berlin, were ...

  • Lech Walesa: John Paul II Helped Topple Berlin Wall 12 Nov 2009 01:52 GMT
    ... Lech Walesa: John Paul II Helped Topple Berlin Wall Former Polish President Lech Walesa said that ...

  • The first wall to fall was in Poland, says Lech Walesa 9 Nov 2009 14:31 GMT
    ... fathers of the fall of the Wall -- forced into action by the masses. Lech Walesa during the strike in Gdansk in 1980. Why were they so taken by surprise? ...


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