Walesa’s prize for fund
NZPA-Reuter Oslo Lech Walesa’s SUSI9O.OOO ($421,800) 1983 Nobel Peace Prize will go towards establishing an agriculture fund for Poland financed by the Wes*, fund leaders say. A Warsaw clergyman. Mr Alojzy Orszulik, and lawyer, Mr Andreas Stelmachowski, leaders of the fund, told reporters that the money was aimed at reviving and modernising Polish agricul-
ture. They said a SUS2B million ($62.16 million) pilot programme was expected tobegin soon. Mr Walesa, who received the Nobel prize for his leadership of the nowbanned independent trade union, Solidarity, had played an important role in bringing together workers and farmers in Poland, they said.
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