Walesa will not give up struggle
NZPA-Reuter Warsaw Lech Walesa said yesterday that he would not give up his struggle for union rights and called on the authorities to look again at agreements made almost three years ago that gave birth to the banned Solidarity union. Dismissing speculation since his meeting with the Pope that he would relinquish his role as a labour leader, he said in an interview in Gdansk: “I have to lead. I have to achieve what we planned (in August, 1980).” He said that the next important thing awaiting the Polish people was the anniversary of the August events. “August will answer a lot of our questions ... in August the people should ask or force those who signed those agreements to sit down once again and check them over,” he said. He added that he would only step down “if there was somebody else to take over the problems. This work is not so pleasant, but I will not quit like a rat. I will not run away.” Mr Walesa was speaking to the American television network A.B.C. and the British television news company I.T.N. M
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Press, 28 June 1983, Page 10
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