Hunger strikers finally pack upÉ for now
Dec 10, 1998
Paul Beckman
VILNIUS - A group of Lithuanian small-businessmen pitched a five-tent camp in a snowy yard near the Parliament building and staged an eight-day hunger strike protesting a law that requires small buisnesses to document the goods they trade.The group packed up camp Dec. 6 only after some MPs, Bronislovas Lubys, the leader of the Lithuanian Industrialists Confederation, and the government agreed to mull over a solution.The protesters, however, vowed to return again if the government does not belly ...
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