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FREEDOM for . . . . . , . . 4:

· . NELSON &_WINNIE MANDELA ... . and.-. . ·

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"' All South Afrlcan Political~Prisoners · .. . .....

·.STOP THE.EXECUTIONS· - : . I, \ , ,t< ' • ,..r ~

· To: President ' · : ~ • · ~ · '' The White OUM '• • ,..., .• ' ' ', • •,'

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Waslun&ton, .C. 20500.• · • ·• ·. ,· " • '·! • . '/_

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. .The crliniDaJ. ci$t governnient of SoUth Africa has deciareci war on those of it$ . . . citiZenS who · for a truly d.emocrat~c society_ free or the stain of fascist ~part~· heid~ :,_ '• ·· , I 0 • • j • ' 1 , • ,. 'I ' t ¢ I ' , ,.: ~-- I '

'NElSON MAND ·, leader of the African Nation&! Consress of Soutli . • - raca • remams 1 rison ifter 'se'iVins over.~~lire sentence. Most.=

rvers agree that M la would be elected President ln a free South Africa.. . IDNNIE.MA.f:mEIA leader of the AN C. has spent the entire time since 1963' ·

· ~un1lfT'03ay,_ ex~~ months from September 1975. through August 1976.-. · linpri$oned or banneU.' She ls w banned and eXiled t0 the. "living grave" of Brand·

fort, the area of South AfriCa own to be the most racist and conservative .. ; Freedom fighters Simon: ·oerane. Jerry. Mosololi, and ,ThabO Motaung,

members of the ANC. were hang by the SOuth African government In June, 198~. · They are three in a long list of pris ners of war exeCuted and awaiting eiecution in_ violation oflntemationallaw aDd n decency. •:' : . ,. . . • .. '

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'We Join with the _United Nailo -•• the Organization' or Afrlciui Unity. and" I mlllions or our own people ln calling pr the Immediate. unconditional release or_ Nelson andWbinle Mandela and all th African freedom fighten captured by.: the Ulegal regime.. • . · · · · . 1 .' ::. ·- - • • · ~ -~: •

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Pre~idenl Beagan.. we caU upon you demonatlore the full supporl" of our I

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• The N~tlonal All~ce Agai:nst Racist an Eolitlcal. Repnisslon (~AARPR) · has Issued the above petition calling for' om for Ne1son and Winnie . Mandela and· all South Afrlean politieal prl. ~rs and an end to ap~rthei~f executions. H cal~s tot President Reagan_ to monstrate full sup~rt ~rom· our government for theSe demands. Petitions .d-a pamphlet on the Issue are available from the NAARPR. A ... peoples" gra .. to .Reagan cond~m i~g . th~;-· igh treason" trials of eight leaders otthe u ited ~mocratlc Fr nt of:

' Sou• Af~ea and. dema!'ding 'their iin~_ediate_relea Is al~o avallab , .• : Write , -"tot e NAARPR,126 W:119th SL;Ste.101;New Yor N.Y~ 10026. Or phone

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JAN 2.2 1985 I