Anti-N hunger strike
By
DAVID BROUGH,
Reuters (through NZPA)
Washington
A frail-looking American scientist is in the sixth month of an anti-nuclear hunger strike, a celebrity in the Soviet Union but largely ignored at home.
The Soviet news media have built up a big campaign over the last week over the fast of Charles Hyder, who once worked for the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (N.A.S.A.) and sat huddled yesterday between signs across from the White House.
Film of the gaunt, bearded figure, seated in Lafayette Park opposite the White House, appears nightly on Soviet television and he is the subject of hundreds of column centimetres in print in official newspapers.
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Press, 6 March 1987, Page 6
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