The World - News from March 18, 1985
Thirteen Polish university teachers and students began a hunger strike at a church in the village of Podkowa Lesna, near Warsaw, seeking the release of an army conscript jailed last December for refusing to take the military oath of allegiance. Marek Adamkiewicz, 28, did not refuse military service but would not take the oath because it contains references of loyalty to the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries.
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