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army and the US marines.

Those who stayed under the Israeli occupation now come to confront Israeli soldiers, with the masses throwing stones at the firing soldiers, and daily guerrilla activity.

In the South's main eastern township of Nabatiya, a Shi'ite religious gathering was attacked by an Israeli patrol. The army LABOUR MOVEMENT Lo su ros out.

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10p pies postere fro LYCIP. 2s Carron Handona Holmigh Rá.. London 116 FIVE leaders of Solidarity, sentenced to several years in prison for "creating clandestine committees," began a hunger strike on September 12 in the Barczew prison near the city of Olsztyn.

Who are they?

*Andrzej Slowik, a leader of Solidarity in the Lodz region, sentenced to six years in prison..

*Jerzy Kropielnicki, a leader of Solidarity in the Lodz region, sentenced to six years in prison and four years' deprivation of civil rights.

"Edmund Baluka. on his second burger strike. a historic¿ reader of the Bakie strikes in 9= a Solidarity activist, *Ei io fre rears in prison = 4=2:953. His appeal was Ficest it: emborides.

FEETSIT Fresciok. Egre Di a biber of the Regiozai Strike Committee (RKS). He led the strikes after the declaration of war against the Polish people on December 13, 1981. A member of the Provisional Coordinating Committee (TKK) of Solidarity, he vas sentenced to six years in prison and four years' deprivation of his civil rights.

*Piotr Bedmarz, , Solidarity activist in the Wroclaw region.

In addition, trials of the leaders of KOR (Committee for Social Self-Defence) are proceeding. Some have already been sentenced to prison terms.

Now imprisoned are a number of Solidarity leaders, including Andrzej Gwiazda, Karol Modwzelewsky, Jan Rulewski, Seweryn Jawoiski, Gregorz Palka, and Marian Jurcyk.

Considering the urgency of the situation, we ask you to immediately send letters or telegrams of protest demanding:

*Satisfaction of the demands of the five hunger strikers who are Solidarity leaders, and their immediate release.

*An end to the trials of the KOR activists, and their release.

*Release of the Solidarity leaders and all those detained for union activities or political opinions.

This information comes from the Committee in Solidarity with the Polish Workers (Montreal) which has received information from the Committee to Support Solidarity in Lund, Sweden. this information was transmitted through Agence-France-Presse under date of September 26, 1983.

WHILE tens of thousands of Polish workers in Warsaw and other cities demonstrated their continued allegiance to Solidarnose last week, it was announced that Reagan's administration - presumably satisfied tha the repression of the union has now reverted to the more 'normal' tactics of East European bureaucracies - has begun lifting economic sanctions. grounds that the Iranians might repeat their "crime" if released. The judge readily complied with heir request. The one female prisoner was held in Tottenham Court Road police station, while he nine male prisoners were ransferred to the remand centre n Peterborough.

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