The World - News from Oct. 2, 1987
A U.S. peace coalition pledged to raise $52 million next year for humanitarian and development aid for Nicaragua. It said a primary goal would be to help poor villages assimilate rebel fighters returning after an anticipated peace settlement. “The contra war is over. It’s dead. It’s time to move on,” Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of the Archdiocese of Detroit said at a news conference in Washington for Quest for Peace, an umbrella organization of more than 100 religious and community groups.
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