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October 22, 1996
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FARRAKHAN

is a gifted oratorical showboat, an impresario of mass theater, and a genius at manipulating signs.

The Fruit of Islam is marching through Harlem on a breezy Sunday. Suited up and wearing their trademark bow ties, true believers are blanketing 125th Street with handbills that warn of imminent Armageddon. Minister Louis Farrakhan arrives here on Wednesday for a mass rally set outside the United Nations and also-coincidence?-outside the national headquarters of the Anti-Defamation League. If it's not yet clear who the combatants will be in a mystical Final Battle, there's no mistaking who the skirmishing parties are this week.

'"The black man hasn't got a problem with the ...

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