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The World - News from Nov. 14, 1988

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A hunger strike by about 80 people--protesting moves by Polish police who violently broke up an unofficial independence day march--entered its second day in the southern city of Katowice. Opposition sources said that the protesters, occupying a church building, demanded that police be punished for driving vans into a crowd of 2,000 marchers Friday night. Eleven people were seriously hurt. Police in several cities used force to break up anti-Communist marches on the 70th anniversary of Poland’s 1918 re-emergence as a state after 123 years of partition.

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