Lech WALESA

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艾米莉•杨, 记者来鸿：瓦文萨的欣慰与遗憾. BBC Chinese, May 8, 2014
www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/fooc ... c_lech_walesa.shtml

, which is translated from

Emily Young, Lech Walesa: 'My Work Here Is Done.' BBC, May 4, 2014.
www.bbc.com/news/business-27222992

Note:
(a) Mr Walesa (1943- ; president 1990-1995)
(b) Gdańsk
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gdańsk
(section 1 Etymology)

(c) Regarding Gdansk Shipyard.
(i) Steven Greenhouse, Rescue of Gdansk Shipyard Stalls, New York Times, Apr 9, 1990
www.nytimes.com/1990/04/09/busin ... hipyard-stalls.html
("Last June, she [Barbara Piasecka Johnson] signed a letter of intent saying she would buy a 55 percent stake in the shipyard by Dec 31, subject to its books and operations being in shape. This would in no way strain her finances because she inherited an estimated $350 million from J Seward Johnson Sr after a bitter battle over his will")

Eventually she did not buy.
(ii) Barbara Piasecka Johnson
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Piasecka_Johnson
(1937-2013; In 1971, they [John Seward Johnson I (age 76) and she (34)] married; In a settlement after battle of the will, "the [Johnson] children were granted about 12% of the fortune, leaving Piasecka Johnson in control of the majority of the estate. In 2007, Johnson was listed on the Forbes 400 World's Richest People list with an estimated net worth of $2.7 billion")

* She did not even know of my existence, yet I have a SECOND degree of separation with her--through one of her beneficiary. I learn a lesson: when a person becomes rich, he or she needs a lot of smarts for fend of solicitors (that means everybody else, including servants), who become disgruntled when their stratagem to defraud fails to materialize. Among the few in the world, I did not hit her for money; even my housemate did, the beneficiary who turned sourgrape. That (Polish) housemate dismissed Mr Walesa as "a mere electrician who did not go to school."

(d) "The workers at its [Fiat's] plant in Tychy describe a complete transformation."

Tychy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tychy
(a city)