Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...eight-party anti-Noriega alliance, won the May presidential election over Carlos Duque. Noriega declared that election null and void, and in the ensuing violence, Endara, Calderon and Ford were beaten by the pro-Noriega vigilante groups known as Dignity Battalions. Endara embarked on a two-week hunger strike to protest Rodriguez's subsequent appointment. After last October's failed coup attempt against Noriega, Endara went into hiding. "Nobody doubts ((his)) courage," says a senior U.S. official, "but it's a lot easier to get yourself beaten up than to put a country together from scratch...