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The World - News from Nov. 11, 1985

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Jailed leaders of the outlawed Solidarity union appear to have been excluded from a limited political amnesty announced by Poland, Western diplomats said in Warsaw. The official PAP news agency reported there would be no clemency for prisoners regarded as “socially dangerous.” This was a blow to hopes that the amnesty would apply to Adam Michnik, Wladyslaw Frasyniuk and Bogdan Lis, who were imprisoned last June for trying to stage a Solidarity strike.

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