Four years after the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan received his vision plus experience�1989�he came to see that he had yet to hold that press conference which the Honorable Elijah Muhammad wanted him to hold in Washington, D.C.

This realization was stimulated by at least four events, which over a four month period in 1989, crystallized for him that he must go to Washington to hold that press conference.

The first two of these events were the death of Congressman Mickey Leland (of Texas). That occurred in the summer of 1989. The other involved the traumatic events at Tiananmen Square in China.

Minister Farrakhan was in Phoenix during these two events. He was youthful in his demeanor and in excellent spirits. However, both of these events were to have a tremendous impact on him. He even seemed to have aged as he wrestled with their meanings.

He told me he knew both had something to do with him and us. The latter event, he said, had more to do with our people�especially Black youth�and yet in some way with him. But, at that time, he did not know how.

Out of his growing understanding came his powerful Stop The Killing series of speeches. We must go back and re-study them and do so in context and in the light of relevant events since then.

After his return to Chicago came the third event. This would take him further into a growing, or heightened, awareness that something was going on that was very big, in the biggest sense of that word. It began with a phone call from Minister Don Muhammad of Boston.

Minister Don informed him of a gang problem in which his help was sought. He told Minister Farrakhan that the gang members were being pressured to give up their weapons. They said they would, but only if Minister Farrakhan would tell them to do so. This question disturbed him. I�ll return to this later.

Meanwhile, his response was that he had not ordered them to pick them up in the first place. However, he later gave them wise and righteous advice, based on the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, whose policies are known the world over.

In September, came the fourth event which would lead to that event, which would fulfill a major part of what he was ordered to do by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. It was to hold that press conference in which he made The Announcement.

A Sister telephoned him to congratulate him on his anniversary. He thought her congratulations referred to the 35th anniversary of his marriage to his wife, Mother Khadijah, which was earlier that month on the 12th. In the course of the conversation he came to see that she had the anniversary of "his vision-plus" in mind.

The call caused him to reflect, more deeply than ever, over his vision plus and on the course of events since that time. Not long after he hung up the phone it all crystallized for him. Allah illuminated his mind on the relevance of these events for him and for us.

Minister Farrakhan decided to hold a press conference in the next month, on the day following the Saviours Day conference in October 1989. He returned to Phoenix. Part of his preparation for this momentous event involved the preparation of his press statement. Minister Farrakhan decided to dictate the entire text, in my home, on the Friday prior to the Tuesday when he would deliver it at the press conference. Sister Marguerite X McCray�now Muhammad�did the typing.

About an hour after the text was typed and proofed, he and I headed for the airport to catch a plane for the East Coast. We went to New York City.

On the next afternoon, as we neared the Capitol, through a circuitous route, these words from his vision came forcibly to my mind: "With great speed it brought me back to earth and dropped me off near Washington where I then proceeded into this city to make The Announcement."

I then thought back to the trip we had made a little better than three years earlier the day before he made his statement to the press on February 4, 1986. We had also landed at that time just outside of the Capitol due to the denseness of the fog. I thought to myself, "That experience pointed to this one. This Saviours Day is a cover for this press conference."

I voiced this thought to Minister Farrakhan.

The fact was that we were about to go to a place (arranged for by Minister Akbar Muhammad) nearby or close to Washington D.C. We were about to land so to speak, just as he did in his vision plus near Washington.

I had a copy of the text of the statement he dictated to Sister Marguerite just the day before. I was with him right up to the time he delivered his statement before the media on that Tuesday.

I am a witness that he did not change one word of the text he dictated, from the previous Friday, when he dictated it, to the following Tuesday when he delivered it.

I emphasize this because of the profound correspondence between something he dictated in his press statement and an event which many people witnessed. It involved what many call UFOs.

Minister Farrakhan did not know how God would confirm his statement, in the ordinary way we obtain information. However, in his prepared statement to the press, Minister Farrakhan declared:

"Before you will be able to establish your mockery of me, if that is what you wish to do, for what was revealed to me in the Wheel, you will see these wheels."

The next day a little wheel appeared over the White House. It was repeatedly televised, or it appeared on T.V., for three straight days. It shook up a lot of people. There was no denying that plane.

UFO is the general term used to describe those planes by most. But let�s think over this. Is this plane unknown to its pilot? NO!

In the last article (Vol. 19 No 1) I raised several questions among which were: Now, what is the deeper relevance of his experience to each of us and to this world�s destiny? Finally, what does all of this tell us about Minister Farrakhan?

I�m introducing my answer with this: Minister Farrakhan�s experience shows him and us to be precious�very valuable in Allah�s sight. If you were not very significant in Allah�s sight, He would not have made Minister Farrakhan (and his Teacher) into the powerful servants as He did. Please, Read the 12th chapter of the book of Revelations.