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DATE-TIME
3/27/98 3:48:31 PM
FROM
Marsh, Thomas S
CLASSIFICATION
UNCLASSIFIED
SUBJECT
Hey Hey, Ho Ho, We Don't Want To Work No Mo [UNCLASSIFIED]
TO
Dean, Susan W.
Sanborn, Daniel R. K.
Starks, Tali T.
Hasman, Thomas M.
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Thousands demand release of prisoners<
WASHINGTON, March 27
(UPI) Some 2,000 protesters marched past the
White House, using
the timing of President Clinton's visit to a historic
South African
prison to demand freedom for some 150 U.S. ``political
prisoners."
The protest in Lafayette Park today was organized by a coalition
of
political activist groups calling themselves ``Jericho '98,"
which
contends that U.S. political prisoners have been neglected
for as long
as 30 years.
They marched and rallied as South
African President Nelson Mandela,
thousands of miles away, walked
Clinton through the prison on Robben
Island, just off the coast
of Cape Town, where Mandela was held for 18
of his 27 years in jail.
Safiya Bukhari, national coordinator of `Jericho '98," said,
``It
took 27 years of imprisonment for Nelson Mandela to gain his
freedom and
lead South Africa into the 21st century.
``One
of our objectives is to make sure that the United States
government
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