Lech Wałęsa

. Leakey is proposing himself and others for jobs in KWS [1].
. The 27 November 2004 edition of the Kenyan newspaper Daily Nation reported that Dr. He has been awarded honorary degrees from several US and European Universities. Leakey's second stint in the civil service lasted till 2001 when he was forced to resign again. Apart from his Nobel Prize, Wałęsa received several other international prizes. In 1999, Moi had to appoint Richard Leakey as Cabinet Secretary and overall head of the civil service at the insistence of international donor institutions as a pre-condition for the resumption of donor funds.

A month later, Wałęsa went to the U.S., representing Poland at the state funeral of Ronald Reagan. The Safina party was routinely harassed and even its application to become an official political party was not approved till 1997. There was some controversy if the name should be spelled Lech Walesa (without diacritics, but better recognizable in the world) or Lech Wałęsa (with Polish letters, but difficult to write and pronounce for foreigners). If they won't, I want somebody else to do it," announced Richard Leakey. His signature has been incorporated into the airport's logo. Moi will do something about the deterioration of public life, corruption and mismanagement, I'd be happy to fight alongside them. In May 10, 2004, the Gdańsk international airport has been officially renamed to Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport to commemorate the famous Gdańsk citizen. "If KANU and Mr.

From that time on he has been lecturing on the history and politics of Central Europe at various foreign universities. In May 1995 Richard Leakey joined a group of Kenyan intellectuals in launching a new political party - the Safina Party. After that Wałęsa again claimed his political retirement. Richard Leakey wrote about his experiences at the KWS in his book Wildlife Wars: My Battle to Save Kenya's Elephants (2001). Wałęsa again stood for the presidential election in 2000, but he received less than 1% of votes. He was replaced by David Western as the head of the KWS. The real leader of the party and its main organizer was a new Solidarity Trade Union leader, Marian Krzaklewski. An annoyed Leakey resigned publically in a press conference in January 1994.

However, his support was of minor significance and Wałęsa held a very low position in this party. Around this time the Kenyan government announced that a secret probe had found evidence of corruption and mismanagement in the KWS. In 1997 Wałęsa supported and helped to organize a new party called "Solidarity Electoral Action" (Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność) which won the parliamentary elections. In a few months Richard Leakey was walking again on artificial limbs. After that he claimed to go to "political retirement", but he was still active, trying to establish his own political party. Sabotage was suspected, but never proved. Wałęsa lost the 1995 presidential election. In 1993 Richard Leakey lost both his legs when his propeller-driven plane crashed.

However, during his presidency Poland was completely changed, from an oppressive communist country under strict Soviet control and with a weak economy to an independent and democratic country with a fast growing free-market economy. Leakey's bold and incorruptible nature also offended many local politicians. His style of presidency was however strongly criticized by most of the political parties, and he lost most of the initial public support by the end of 1995. His view was that parks were self-contained ecosystems that had to be fenced in and the humans kept out. During his presidency he started so called "war at the top" which practically meant changing the government annually. Richard Leakey's confrontational approach to the issue of human-wildlife conflict in national parks did not win him friends. On December 9, 1990 Wałęsa won the presidential election to become president of Poland for the next five years. Richard Leakey, President Arap Moi and the KWS made the international news headlines when a stock pile of 12 tons of ivory was burned in 1989.

Poland, while still a communist country in theory, started to change its economy to the free market system. Impressed by Leakey's transformation of the KWS, the World Bank approved grants worth $140 million. After that agreement, to the big surprise of the Communist Party, the parliament chose Tadeusz Mazowiecki for prime minister of Poland. The poaching menance was dramatically reduced. At the end of 1989 he persuaded leaders from formally communist ally parties to form a non-communist coalition government, which was the first non-communist government in the Soviet Bloc. With characteristically bold steps Leakey created special, well-armed anti-poaching units that were authorized to shoot poachers on sight. While technically just a Chairman of Solidarity Trade Union at the time Wałęsa played a key role in Polish politics. In 1989 Richard Leakey was appointed the head of the Kenyan Wildlife Service (KWS) by President Daniel Arap Moi in response to the international outcry over the poaching of elephants and the impact it was having on the wildlife of Kenya.

Formally it was just an advisory body, but practically it was a kind of a political party, which won parliament elections in 1989 (Opposition took 48% of seats in the Sejm out of 49% that were subject of free elections and all but one seats in the newly re-established senate; the remaining 51% of seats were given automatically to Communist Party according to the Round Table agreements). Leakey and Roger Lewin describe the experience of this find and their interpretation of it, in their book Origins Reconsidered (1992). In 1989 Wałęsa organized and led the Citizenship Committee of the Chairman of Solidarity Trade Union. Turkana Boy was the nearly complete skeleton of a 12-year-old (or possibly 9-year-old) hominid who died 1.6 million years ago. During the talks the government signed an agreement to re-establish the Solidarity Trade Union and to organize "half-free" elections to Polish parliament. His most famous discovery was that of Turkana Boy in the Koobi Fora area near Lake Turkana. Wałęsa was an informal leader of the "non-governmental" side during the talks. Leakey started his career following in the footsteps of his famous parents with discoveries of early hominid fossils in East Africa.

After eighty days the government agreed to enter into round-table talks in September. . In 1988 Wałęsa organized an occupational strike in Gdańsk Shipyard, demanding only the re-legalisation of the Solidarity Trade Union. He is the second of the three sons of the archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey. From 1987 to 1990 Wałęsa organized and led the "half-illegal" Temporary Executive Committee of Solidarity Trade Union. Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (born 19 December 1944 in Nairobi, Kenya), is a renowned paleontologist, archaeologist and conservationist. Wałęsa donated the prize money to the Solidarity movement's temporary headquarters in exile (in Brussels).

He was unable to receive the prize himself, fearing that the government would not let him back in, so his wife Danuta Wałęsowa received the prize in his place. 1983 also saw Wałęsa being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. While formally treated as a "simple worker", he was practically under house arrest until 1987. In 1983 he applied to come back to Gdańsk Shipyard to his former position as a simple electrician.

He was interned for 11 months in south-eastern Poland near the Soviet border until November 14, 1982. Wałęsa kept this position until December 1981, when Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski declared a state of martial law. The Strike Coordination Committee legalized itself into National Coordination Committee of Solidarność Free Trade Union, and Wałęsa was chosen as a chairman of this Committee. In September of that year, the Communist government signed an agreement with the Strike Coordination Committee to allow legal organization, but not actual free trade unions.

Several days later he stopped workers who wanted to leave Gdańsk Shipyard, and persuaded them to organize the Strike Coordination Committee (Międzyzakładowy Komitet Strajkowy) to lead and support the naturally occurred general strike in Poland. The strike was spontaneously followed by similar strikes across Poland. In August 14, 1980, after the beginning of an occupational strike in the Gdańsk Shipyard, Wałęsa illegally scaled the wall of the Shipyard and became the leader of this strike. He was arrested several times in 1979 for organizing an "anti-state" organization, but not found guilty in court and released at the beginning of 1980, after which he re-entered the Gdańsk shipyard.

In 1978, together with Andrzej Gwiazda and Aleksander Hall, he organized the illegal underground Free Trade Union of Pomerania (Wolne Związki Zawodowe Wybrzeża). Due to his being on an informal blacklist, he couldn't find another job and lived at the time thanks to his friends' personal help. In 1976 Wałęsa lost his job in Gdańsk Shipyard for collecting signatures for a petition to build a memorial for the killed workers. After the bloody end of the strike, resulting in over 80 workers killed by the riot police, Wałęsa was arrested and convicted of "anti-social behaviour", spending one year in prison.

He was a member of the illegal strike committee in Gdańsk Shipyard in 1970. In 1969 he married Danuta Gołoś, and the couple now have eight children. Lenina, now Stocznia Gdańska) as an electrical technician in 1967. He attended primary and vocational school, before entering Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk (Stocznia Gdańska im.