POLAND: Lech Walesa's moustache, symbol of Polish resistance to communist rule, is no more, his office chief said yesterday. The former president decided to shave off his moustache because of the intense summer heat, a spokeswoman said.
The moustache, along with a pin depicting Our Lady of Czestochowa, in a subversive message for religious freedom, accompanied the trade unionist all the way to win Poland's first democratic presidential election in 1990. Mr Walesa recently told a Polish magazine he had refused a million euro offer from an unnamed razor brand to shave off his moustache for a commercial. - (AFP)
