The Nation - News from Sept. 26, 1985
Washington police broke up a Yom Kippur protest against the treatment of Soviet Jews and arrested four demonstrators for carrying signs within 500 feet of the Soviet Embassy. The demonstration, staged by Christian clerics and laymen standing in for Jewish rabbis who took the day off from their vigil for Yom Kippur, was interrupted shortly after ministers read a statement and several biblical passages. The four protesters were taken for booking on misdemeanor charges of demonstrating too close to a foreign embassy.
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