58 Seized at S. African Embassy
Associated Press
WASHINGTON —
Fifty-eight District of Columbia government employees, described by Mayor Marion Barry as the spiritual heirs of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., were arrested today in the largest anti-apartheid protest so far at the South African Embassy.
An estimated 4,000 people, chanting “Freedom, yes, apartheid, no,” massed near the embassy as Barry said “we are still carrying on the struggle for freedom and justice” that King led before he was assassinated in 1968.
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