The World - News from May 20, 1986
About 70 West Germans occupied their nation’s embassy in Managua, Nicaragua, and said the ambassador could not leave until he asks President Reagan to order U.S.-backed Nicaraguan contras to release eight captured German volunteer workers. The eight volunteers were helping to build houses for peasants. They were abducted Saturday by the rebels at a village 120 miles southeast of the capital.
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