If Louis Farrakhan means to retain whatever shreds of credibility he still has, he’d better get off the fence and repudiate Jesse Jackson.
That National Council of Churches group that went on a Potemkin tour of the USSR got, as an unexpected bonus, a glimpse of martyrdom. In a Baptist church in Moscow, demonstrators raised a sign saying: “This is a persecuted church.” Accounts differ as to what happened next. The New York Times reported a violent scuffle, after which the demonstrators were arrested. NCC spokesmen said the demonstrators were released, and. went on to praise the Soviets’ handling of the incident. “I understand that in the United States a situation like this would have been handled by the police,” said one, oddly. Another blamed the failure of arms-control talks on the United States. The Soviet press quoted the visitors as praising Soviet freedom of religion, and for once we believe it. If this bunch had dropped in at the Roman Colosseum, it would have had kinds words for the lions.
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