Charges of disorderly conduct against six women who had demonstrated outside the Soviet Mission to the United Nations last month were dropped in New York City Criminal Court last week.
The women were among seven who protested the current wave of arrests and trials of unauthorized Jewish educators in the Soviet Union in a demonstration sponsored by the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry. The charge against the seventh woman was also dropped when she appeared in court last week.
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