ABSTRACT: The recommendation presented by Lucio Berté and acclaimed by the Federal Council, requires the Czech authorities to repeal the life expulsion of nineteen militant Radicals who demonstrated in Prague in August 1988.

The Federal Council of the Radical Party joyfully welcoming the new way to freedom and democracy which has been opened up in Czechoslovakia by a great, popular, nonviolent movement,

invites

Vaclav Havel, President of the Republic

Alexander Dubcek, President of Parliament

Marian Cialfa, President of the Council of Ministers

to do everything in their power for the repeal of the measure requiring the life expulsion from Czechoslovakian territory of militants of the transnational Radical Party who, in August 1988 were involved in a demonstration which lasted several days, for the restoration of freedom, democracy and the civil rights of the Czechoslovakian people, for the release of political prisoners, for the withdrawal of the Soviet troops from Czechoslovakian territory, in memory of Jan Palach. For these nonviolent actions the Radical Party was accused by the Government spokesman of being responsible for organizing the large-scale demonstration in Prague on August 20, 1988.

The following militants were expelled:Antonio Lali, Antonia Brown, Vincenzo Donvito, Paola Caravaggi, Giuseppe Lorenzi Giovanni Negri, Oliviero Noventa, Massimo Lensi, Andrea Tamburi, Monica Cozzi, Gabriele Pace, Lucio Berté, Begona Rodriguez, Jean-Luc Robert, Maddalena Antona Traversi, Juan Arias, Georges Van Gassen, Massimo Fraticelli, Alas Sirad.

The Federal Council of the transnational Radical Party, asks Havel, Dubcek, and Cialfa for the abrogation of those regulations permitting the measure of expulsion, in order to affirm the principle of the free circulation of individuals and the freedom to demonstrate their thoughts anywhere.