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Wwe oe ee wee cu have canvassed neighbour~ ing schools in West Sussex and Hampshire for support. The head boy, Robin Marriner said: " We first th ‘ought of taking action when we heard the news on Tuesday. fow of us debated it well into the night.We then hold a méeting after \ssembly this morning.eThe strike was the resulte THe V-RY YOUNG FOLLOW, 400 girls defied their teachers yesterday and marched through streets near thoir School in Swansea on Thursday shouting "B > the Bomb" and "We don't want war}! In Walsall, 12-year-old Tanya Brayford got 75 signatures from fellow-school — children to a petition to Kennedy to "stop taking desperate action that would lead to a third world war in which all Britaiz! schildren would perish." The sixth forms at Slliott Comprehensive School, Putney~which has 2,000 pupils - have prepared a petition protesting against the blockade; already the majority of sixth~-formers have signed it. A protest hungsr strike ovir Cuba will be staged by 40 girl pupils of Chichostcr High School Sussex. They hope that all 300 pupils will refuse to eat lunch on one day next week.They are also asking other schools in Wsst Sussex to boycott the meal and send the dinner money to the Oxford Famine Relief Fund.On Friday the senior girls staged a protest march through Chichester. 60 Senior Acafemic Staff protest, Professor of Socio logy, BV. Glass, of London School of Jconomics, Haywied in the following lottor signed 60 senior academic staff, addressed to the Prime \inister-"We the undersigned membors of the Senior Common room, deeply Alarmed by the imminent threat of global nuclear war ovor Cuba, call upon Her l'ajesty'ts Governnont 1. To issue a declaration that Britian will not be drawn into this Russian-American conflict. 2.To use all its endeavours y jointly with other nations, to bring about a peaceful sottlement through the United Nations, 3eTo seize the opportunity provided by this crises to bring about increased efforts for genoral disarmanont."’ national to gst signaturss from Uniwsrity staff all ovcr the country has been launched,