A Los Angeles-area rabbi is scheduled to travel to Yugoslavia with a delegation of religious leaders hoping to secure the release of three captured U.S. soldiers there. Rabbi Steven Jacobs will join Muslim and Christian leaders on the trip, which is being led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, founder and president of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, and the Rev. Joan Campbell, general-secretary of the National Council of Churches.
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