The World - News from March 14, 1985

Czechoslovak authorities arrested 48 members of the country’s human rights movement, Charter 77, after breaking up a clandestine film show in a Prague apartment, emigre sources said in Vienna. Thirty-seven of the people were released after questioning, but 11 remained in prison, the sources said. The arrests followed the release of Charter 77’s first-ever appeal for the withdrawal of all Soviet and American nuclear weapons and military units from Europe and the dissolution of power blocs on the Continent.