Women march
NZPA-Reuter Stockholm About 300 peace campaigners. mostly women, were to leave Stockholm today on a two-week march which will take them 1500 km inside the Soviet Union. The march comes almost exactly a year after a similar peace walk was staged between Copenhagen and Paris, organised by a group called Nordic Women for Peace. Today's march, organised by the same group, and the Soviet Peace Committee and the Soviet Women's Committee. combines women from Sweden. Norway. Denmark and Finland. Travelling by boat from Stockholm via Helsinki, the marchers will arrive at Leningrad tomorrow, with stops planned in Moscow, Smolensk and Minsk. Part of the journey would be by train, the spokeswoman said.
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Press, 14 July 1982, Page 9
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