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Article: Religious Leaders Call for Unity as Barry Trial Ends
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 3, 1990
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More than 80 religious leaders from the Washington area, in an
unusual joint statement, have issued an appeal for unity and
conscience as the trial of D.C. Mayor Marion Barry comes to an end.
The group of prominent clerics, representing a cross section of
faiths and races in the District and its suburbs, said they are
responding to a "crisis of integrity," according to a signed
statement that appears in a half-page advertisement in the A section
of today's Washington Post.
The Washington Post donated free advertising space for the
statement after being asked to do so by the religious leaders. The
statement, which questions both the motives and actions of the
federal government and Mayor ...