The World - News from Aug. 7, 1985
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Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d’Escoto, following medical advice, ended his monthlong hunger strike, which he began to protest the Reagan Administration’s “terrorist strategy” toward his country’s leftist government. D’Escoto, a former Maryknoll priest, began his “fast and prayers” in a suburban Managua church July 7 to call attention to continued U.S. support for thousands of right-wing rebels trying to overthrow the Sandinista government. Weighing 205 pounds at the beginning, he lost 33 pounds, he said.
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