The World - News from May 11, 1986
The world’s 1 billion Muslims began to fast and practice self-denial in observance of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month. In Lebanon, Christian militia forces called on their Muslim foes to mark the holiday by adopting a cease-fire in the country’s long sectarian fighting. And Islamic mediators urged Iran and Iraq, locked in war for more than five years, to lay down their arms for Ramadan.
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