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Holding fast: Alexander, a Buddhist monk, goes through Day 17 of a hunger strike yesterday, protesting conditions at Toronto's Seaton House hostel for men
Holding fast: Alexander, a Buddhist monk, goes through Day 17 of a hunger strike yesterday, protesting conditions at Toronto's Seaton House hostel for men

Holding fast: Alexander, a Buddhist monk, goes through Day 17 of a hunger strike yesterday, protesting conditions at Toronto's Seaton House hostel for men

Date10/22/1992
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Original Toronto Star caption: Holding fast: Alexander; a Buddhist monk; goes through Day 17 of a hunger strike yesterday; protesting conditions at Toronto's Seaton House hostel for men.
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