The World - News from May 20, 1986
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About 70 West Germans occupied their nation’s embassy in Managua, Nicaragua, and said the ambassador could not leave until he asks President Reagan to order U.S.-backed Nicaraguan contras to release eight captured German volunteer workers. The eight volunteers were helping to build houses for peasants. They were abducted Saturday by the rebels at a village 120 miles southeast of the capital.
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