The World Union of Jewish Students appealed to Marxist leaders in Latin America today to use their influence with Moscow to have Soviet authorities commute the Leningrad sentences. The appeals to Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba and President Salvador Allende of Chile were sent from the annual student seminar in Dublin. They also appealed for intervention to Regis Debre, the French Marxist writer recently released from a Bolivian prison after serving three years of a 30 year sentence for guerrilla activity. (In Brussels today, Paul Struye, president of the Belgian Senate, cabled the president of the Soviet Chamber of Lawyers asking him to intervene to have the Leningrad sentences commuted.
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