The World - News from Aug. 7, 1985
Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d’Escoto, following medical advice, ended his monthlong hunger strike, which he began to protest the Reagan Administration’s “terrorist strategy” toward his country’s leftist government. D’Escoto, a former Maryknoll priest, began his “fast and prayers” in a suburban Managua church July 7 to call attention to continued U.S. support for thousands of right-wing rebels trying to overthrow the Sandinista government. Weighing 205 pounds at the beginning, he lost 33 pounds, he said.
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