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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Walesa said Thursday that he does not believe the world is living through a major economic crisis. Instead, the former Polish president sees problems in the global banking sector that require structural reform.
Former Polish President Lech Walesa appealed to senior European politicians Thursday to save the struggling Gdansk shipyard, the cradle of the pro-democracy Solidarity movement that he founded.
Poland's former president Lech Walesa is threatening to emigrate to protest a new biography he calls slanderous.
President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday that Lech Walesa will be barred from entering Venezuela if the Nobel Peace Prize laureate attempts to come to lend his support to opposition groups.
Lech Walesa is a national icon — an anti-communist hero, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president. But he wasn't invited to Poland's independence gala, and the current president is facing criticism for the slight.
Former Polish President Lech Walesa on Monday presented a new autobiography that he hopes will put to rest allegations he served as a communist agent in the 1970s.
Testifying at the trial of Poland's last Communist leader, Former Polish President Lech Walesa suggested Wednesday that the Soviet system was responsible for the killing of protesting shipyard workers in 1970, rather than individuals.
Solidarity activist Bronislaw Geremek was honored by hundreds at a funeral Mass in Warsaw's historic old town Monday, with former President Lech Walesa calling him "the greatest of all Poles."
Former Polish President Lech Walesa was discharged from a Houston hospital Tuesday, four days after surgeons successfully implanted a pacemaker.
Surgeons successfully implanted a pacemaker in former Polish President Lech Walesa on Friday and hope it will keep the Nobel laureate from needing a heart transplant.
Doctors are hoping that a pacemaker will keep Nobel laureate and former Polish President Lech Walesa from needing a heart transplant.
Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Polish president Lech Walesa was undergoing tests for heart failure and being evaluated as a potential heart transplant recipient, Houston's Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center said Tuesday.
America's role as a global economic power is unchallenged, but it must reassert its role as a moral superpower, former Polish president and Nobel laureate Lech Walesa said Thursday.
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the most prestigious of the Nobel awards and is most sought after in the world.
Lech Walesa blasts Obama on missile shield abandonment"I could tell from what I saw, what kind of policies President Obama cultivates," the former president added. "I simply don't like this policy, not because this shield was required [in Poland], but [because of] the way we were treated," he concluded.
BBC NEWS | Europe | Walesa scorns collaboration claimIn Poland, Lech Walesa is a national hero. He is the man who, in the 1980s, led the Solidarity movement, whose defiance of the country's then Communist government started a mass movement which eventually led to its overthrow.
A Jewish Cardinal? Oy Vey! Yesterday, I attended the funeral service held for Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger at Notre-Dame in Paris. It was unlike any funeral I've ever attended, and surely unlike any service ever held at this cathedral in its 700 years of existence.
Nobel laureates urge China to free Tibet Can the South African-sanctions tactics somehow be applied to China? It was a lot easier with S. Africa...all they had was diamonds and gold.
Nobel laureates urge China to free TibetNEW DELHI - "China could take a cue from former South African president Frederik Willem de Klerk who freed Nelson Mandela to lead the struggle against apartheid," Lech Walesa told the PTI news agency in an interview.
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