The Rev. Jesse Jackson said he met...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson said he met with an adviser to President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and other Soviet officials in an attempt to organize a superpower telethon to aid victims of Armenia’s earthquake. Jackson arrived in the Soviet Union on Sunday to promote his plan for the broadcast, which he said would raise money to help buy prefabricated housing for some of the 500,000 people left homeless by the Dec. 7 quake. It was the first trip to the Soviet Union for Jackson, who met with Gorbachev at the Geneva summit in 1985. Jackson is scheduled to visit the earthquake zone in Armenia before leaving the country on Friday.