Three members of the Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry were arrested here Tuesday by the FBI after staging a four-hour sit-in at the Soviet Consulate. Selma Light, Regina Waldman and Michele Sofios went to the Consulate with Sylva Zalmanson to deliver an appeal on behalf of her husband, Edward Kuznetsov, who was on his 33rd day of a hunger strike “to the death” in the Potma labor camp. The Consulate staff refused to accept the appeal and the group sat it. According to the Bay Area Council the federal government will not press charges since the sit-in was peaceful.
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