Religious Leaders Call for Unity as Barry Trial Ends From: The Washington Post | Date: August 3, 1990| Author: Lynda Richardson | Copyright (null) The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

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...

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