GUARDIAN/ J.BORGER /
"Sixteen years after leaving office, Walesa, 67, is still trusting his political instincts and shooting from the hip. You are never quite sure what you are going to hear.
Poland's most celebrated living son is still in Gdansk, where he rose to fame. But his vantage point over the Baltic port these days is somewhat more elevated than his old worker's flat."
AND : "Semi-retirement, running a pro-democracy foundation, has not mellowed him. He is as combative and abrupt with journalists as ever."
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