The Nation - News from Dec. 11, 1987

Transit officials criticized for putting a fence up to keep homeless people from sleeping at a subway entrance in the nation’s capital said they will park an old bus by the station each night as an alternative shelter. Homeless activists who have been on a hunger strike since Nov. 9 to protest the fence said they would end their fast when the bus was in place, probably Monday. Metro installed the chain-link fence in October in response to complaints about the daily mess of human waste left by homeless people using the downtown Farragut West station for shelter.