The State - News from Sept. 17, 1986
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A 71-year-old World War II Marine veteran gave up his two-week-old hunger strike in San Francisco on behalf of veterans exposed to radiation. Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) “convinced me that he and the other members of Congress would do the right thing and repeal the amendment,” Victor Tolley said. “I have every faith in him.”
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