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A classical theorem of M. Fried [2] asserts that if non-zero integers $β₁,...,β_l$ have the property that for each prime number p there exists a quadratic residue $β_j$ mod p then a certain product of an odd number of them is a square. We provide generalizations for power residues of degree n in two cases: 1) n is a prime, 2) n is a power of an odd prime. The proofs involve some combinatorial properties of finite Abelian groups and arithmetic results of [3].