In protest against the harsh sentences meted out to the Leningrad Nine and the upcoming trials in Riga and Kishinev, a student strike for Soviet Jewry has been called for May 27, it was announced here today by Kenneth Arfa and Zvi Pearl, spokesmen for the ad hoc Student Strike for Soviet Jewry. On that day, the spokesmen said, thousands of students will not attend classes and instead will participate in a demonstration and march. At 12 noon a rally will take place at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza near the United Nations, where Soviet Jews now in America and other speakers will address the participants. From the Plaza, the group will march in a single file, carrying placards with the names of Soviet Jewish “Prisoners of Conscience,” to the Soviet Mission to the UN. At the Mission, the names on the cards will be read off and the placards deposited in front of the Mission. The strike is under the sponsorship of the Jewish High School Student Alliance, the American Conference on Soviet Jewry, the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, the New York Union of Jewish Students, and the New York Conference on Soviet Jewry.
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