The World - News from Oct. 10, 1989
Solidarity leader Lech Walesa of Poland will visit the United States, Canada and Venezuela next month, meeting with trade union and political leaders and addressing a joint session of Congress. The Nov. 12-20 trip, Walesa’s first to North America, will include an outdoor rally at City Hall in Chicago, a city with an ethnic Polish population second only to Warsaw. Walesa, 46, will address Congress on Nov. 15. He has said he will remind U.S. lawmakers of Poland’s contributions to American independence since the Revolutionary War and plead for U.S. support for his country.
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