World IN BRIEF : EAST GERMANY : Prisoners’ Strike for Amnesty Widens
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Ninety-eight inmates at an East German jail went on a hunger strike in support of fellow convicts who have been protesting on the rooftops of several prisons since Wednesday. The inmates are demanding that the government declare a general amnesty Oct. 3, the date set for German unification, because they say many sentences handed down under the ousted Communist government were overly harsh and should be reviewed.
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