The Nation - News from Jan. 27, 1986

Gino Casanova, the Vietnam veteran who fasted 51 days on behalf of missing servicemen believed still alive in Southeast Asia, ignored the pleas of his supporters and began a new hunger strike in Kent, Wash., an associate said. Casanova, 34, who has yet to gain back the 44 pounds he lost in last year’s fast, re-entered the bamboo cage in a pasture near Kent and vowed not to eat or drink for 10 days.