Some 50 peaceful demonstrators, demanding amnesty and the immediate release of Anatoly Shcharansky, picketed last night at the Palace Legion of Honor where the 60th anniversary of the Russian revolution was being marked. The pickets represented the American Jewish Congress, the Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry and the northern California Board of Rabbis.
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