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Singapore crowds greet eight jailed party leaders after victory
In Singapore, about two thousand people welcomed eight leaders of a leftist faction of the People’s Action Party released from prison after subversion riots in 1956. The party won 43 of 51 seats, but Lee Kwan Yew delayed forming a government until they were freed. The rest of the text touches on unrelated topics.
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