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Der Artikel gibt - unter Einbeziehung von Stellungnahmen polnischer Publizisten - einen Überblick über Erfolge, Probleme und Popularität des polnischen Staatspräsidenten Lech Walesa am Ende des ersten Vierteljahrs seiner Amtszeit. Er nennt die günstigen Auswirkungen seiner Staatsbesuche im westlichen Ausland sowie die Bedeutung der unter seiner Mitwirkung gebildeten polnischen Regierung; er berichtet über Vorschläge zur Bewältigung der unlösbar erscheinenden polnischen Wirtschaftsprobleme und er zeigt die Popularitäts- und Vertrauenseinbußen, die Walesa aufgrund seiner uneingeschränkten Übernahme der Standpunkte der katholischen Kirche sowie wegen der Zweifel an seiner Unparteilichkeit besonders bei Jugend und Intelligenz erlitten hat. (BIOst-Gsh)

A speech given by Lech Walesa, former President of Poland and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, at Seton Hall University on December 1, 2005. Adapted from the source document.

The path of Poland and other countries of the former Eastern bloc towards membership of the North Atlantic Alliance was neither easy nor short, but today, ten years after the momentous and historic decision to enlarge NATO, the Allies can say with full confidence that it was worth doing. And Poland is able to say with a clear conscience that it has carried its share of the Alliance's load. Figures. Adapted from the source document.

As one of the leaders of the Polish workers, Lech Walesa was detained several times during the 1970s. He led the shipyard strike and later negotiated the Gdansk agreement of 31 August 1980. In December 1981, Walesa, along with several thousand others, was arrested when General Jaruzelski imposed martial law and "suspended" the labour movement "Solidarnosc" (Solidarity). Walesa was interned in a country house in a remote part of Poland, close to the then Soviet border, and was visited three times by ICRC delegates. During this period, the ICRC visited 4,850 other internees (79 visits to 24 different places of detention) and it provided assistance and helped to restore contact between internees and their families abroad. At the same time and in conjunction with the Polish Red Cross and the League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (as it was then known), the ICRC carried out an extensive assistance programme for the benefit of the civilian population which was in dire need of basic goods.

Drawing on his unique insider's perspective as press spokesman for Lech Walesa from October 1989 to July 1990, Jaroslaw Kurski has written the first critical, clear-eyed account of the Polish leader's personal and political style. During his time in Walesa's office, Kurski became acquainted with the many forces and ambitions-which were unknown to t