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Soviet Pentecostalists try to win freedom with a hunger strike...
...worshipers who want to emigrate to the U.S. with the rest of their families. Thus far, the Soviet Union has blocked their efforts. Last week, in the most dramatic in their 20-year battle, two of the seven, Augustina Vashchenko, 52, and her daughter Lidiya, 30, were on a hunger strike and failing fast. "Lidiya is down to her last reserves," said visiting Pennsylvania Congressman Bud Shuster. "It could become a life-threatening situation...
Their plan was inspired by Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov's successful hunger strike late last year. Augustina started taking only juice and water on Dec 25, despite the opposition of Pyotr and the Christian teaching against suicide. Lidiya joined her three days later. When Historian Kent Hill of Seattle Pacific University flew to Moscow, Lidiya told him, "Here I am with no end in sight. I can't bear it. If I can't have a normal life, I'd sooner...
...death nears, U.S. Ambassador Arthur Hartman presumably will be forced to order the women out of the embassy for hospitalization-and into a dangerous reunion with Soviet authorities. If either woman is taken away, or dies, Liliya has vowed to start her own hunger strike...
...campaign on the skids, Teddy Kennedy announces he will go on hunger strike until Election Day. "That way, even if I lose I'll be in good shape," Kennedy, a reconciliation-minded Joan by his side, tells reporters...