The Nation - News from Dec. 5, 1985
A Polish sailor applied for political asylum in the United States three days after he deserted his ship Sunday while it was unloading steel in Cleveland. Leszek Kapsa, 27, speaking through an interpreter, said he wanted to stay in the United States because of its “freedom, first of all, freedom.” Kapsa, a cook, had been a member of Solidarity, the outlawed union in Poland, said an American friend, the Rev. Marian M. Kencik.
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