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By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Linda Feldmann

September 30, 1983

Jaafar Nimeiry President of Sudan, freed all 13,000 of the nation's prison inmates Thursday to give them a second chance at life on the outside. ''Anyone who returns to crime,'' he said, ''will be tried in accordance with Islamic Sharia law."