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The World - News from May 26, 1985

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A Warsaw appeals court acquitted Poland’s leading dissident intellectual, Jacek Kuron, of charges that he refused to leave a Solidarity May Day march, and it overturned his three-month jail term. The court ruled there was not adequate proof that Kuron had heard a police order to supporters of the outlawed independent union to disperse as they marched from a church to the Huta Warszawa steel mill.

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