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Show A Mission Of Mercy We had a dream the other night that an international rescue mission had been organized or-ganized for Mississippi. It was staged by some African country, coun-try, Zambia, or something like that, with UN support. Paratroopers Para-troopers were flown in by Mexican planes. The magazine Christianity and Crisis recently totaled four month's atrocities by Mississippi Missis-sippi white natives as "three dead, 83 injured, 1,000 arrested on trumped-up charges, 37 churches burned, and 31 other buildings bombed." Other sources reported floggings flog-gings and burnings, but tales of cannibalism are believed exaggerated. ex-aggerated. International patience pa-tience finally snapped. Para-trooers Para-trooers bravely landed at a local airstrip driving back forces of tribal chief Ross Bar-nett, Bar-nett, and rescuing Negro ministers min-isters held hostage by anative terror group, the loin-cloth Kluxers. Just as a group of mercenaries led by J. Edgar Hoover joined the rescue we woke up; It was getting too improbable. TRB in The New Republic |