The World - News from Jan. 8, 1987
Members of Charter 77, a human rights group in Czechoslovakia, managed to hold their first news conference in a decade and expressed cautious hope for a freer country. Charter 77 members said that police watched or detained at least nine of the group and kept them from the news session, held Tuesday in an apartment. The group issued a 10th-anniversary proclamation that urged Czechoslovaks to “understand the historic possibility of this moment (of change) and exploit it.” It called for free trade unions, economic reforms, an end to censorship and religious persecution and free discussion of all political subjects.
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