The World - News from July 11, 1985
An American man, his Nicaraguan wife and another woman joined a hunger strike by Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel D’Escoto to protest U.S. aid to anti-government rebels. D’Escoto, 50, a Roman Catholic priest, began fasting Sunday to denounce “the policy of state terrorism imposed by the North American (U.S.) government against Nicaragua.” U.S. citizen Tibor Fuchs, his Nicaraguan wife, Marcia Santos Lopez, and Libudina Ortega, another Nicaraguan citizen, began their fast in a Managua house next to where D’Escoto is staying.
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