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The World - News from June 12, 1985

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One Polish priest was jailed for a year and another received a 10-month suspended sentence for joining a sit-in by high school students in the southern town of Wloszczowa in protest against the removal of crucifixes from their classrooms. Father Marek Labuda, who was jailed, was found guilty of resisting the law and refusing to leave the school premises when requested, a church official said. Father Andrzej Wilczynski, tried on the same charge, received the suspended sentence.

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