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- DIED. Mitch Snyder, 46, indefatigable champion of the
- homeless; apparently by suicide; in Washington. Snyder was
- found hanged, with an electric cord around his neck, at the
- Community for Creative Non-Violence shelter he helped
- establish. Police attributed the suicide to his despair over
- a failed relationship. On the eve of the 1984 presidential
- election, Snyder defied death and Ronald Reagan in a 51-day fast
- that ultimately led the Government to donate an abandoned
- federal building for a showcase shelter. Martin Sheen portrayed
- him in the 1986 CBS television movie Samaritan: The Mitch
- Snyder Story.
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