The World - News from Sept. 20, 1985
Bolivia declared a state of siege and arrested 150 labor leaders who refused to end a 16-day-old general strike against a wage freeze intended to fight raging inflation. President Victor Paz Estenssoro’s conservative government told tens of thousands of strikers that they will be fired unless they return to work, but most stayed home. Riot police raided the Congress building, five union halls, a radio station, San Andres University and the state mining company, unionists said.
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