European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine Paholi Pitt Tot Tat minister Jimmy Swaggart is accused of toy ing to take Over the pal up1 photo Jerry Falwell founder of moral majority la now running the pal until Fence mending it Complete. Dpi photo pentecostal minister Jim Bakker stepped Down from hit pal pulpit to quash a diabolical  associated Pressa Tower of babble has risen from the multimillion Dollar Empire of television evangelists amid lurid tales of illicit sex blackmail drug addiction and Power struggles. Rival factions in the holy War include Jim b Akker who says he abandoned the pal pulpit to quash a diabolical plot by rival Jimmy Swaggart to seize control of the $172 million ministry which claims half a million followers. Bakker turned the ministry Over to the Rev. Jerry faleh last week saying he did so to Avert a hostile takeover by people who knew of a blackmail scheme Over Bakker s illicit Liaison with a Young Church Secretary seven years earlier. The47-year-Otd pentecostal minister remained in seclusion in Palm Springs calif., with his wife. Tammy Faye. Mrs. Bakker co Hosl of the Jim and Tammy show is undergoing treatment for drug dependency. The bakkers previously have drawn criticism for a glitzy lifestyle that includes expensive Homes and a �55,000 Rolls Royce purchased at the same time the bakkers were imploring viewers to bail the pal out o a $5 million debt. Pal stands or Praise the lord or people that love. The pal s new leaders say Bakker and his Wile flu stay on the payroll but must not be Active in the ministry. Bakker s Church the assemblies of god. Said he might face dismissal Lor moral  Jimmy Swaggart a pentecostal minister end sell proclaimed King of the to of Amiul boasting an audience of 40 million each sunday. He admits going to superiors at the pentecostal assemblies of god the country s largest pentecostal denomination with rumours of Bakker s fling but denies any plot to Lake Over or bring Down the pal. Such allegations Are a smokescreen to cover Bakker s nefarious activities Swaggart said. He told  s night me that the entire debacle involving Bakker was a cancer that needed to be excised from the body of  Jimmy Swaggart ministries inc of Baton Rouge la. Is a $100 million a year satellite communications network that broadcasts worldwide employs More then 600 people and includes a $10 million to recording studio a 9,000-seat worship Center and a Bible College Swaggart owns seven religious radio stations and claims to have sold 15 million gospel music records. Jerry Falwell fundamentalist Baptist and founder of moral majority agreed to run pal until Fence mending is Complete. He doubts Swaggart was behind Bakker s downfall. Faleh who employs about �,000 people in his own $ 100 million ministry hinted last week that Bakker has lost too much credibility to Stags a pal comeback soon. Falwell s enterprises include his Liberty foundation formerly known As moral majority which claims a mailing list of 6.5 million people. Faleh claims his old time gospel hour telecast reaches 5 million households but the . Nielsen co puts the figure at one tenth that. Oral Roberts originally a pentecostal who switched to the United methodist Church backs Sakker As a Prophet of god and claims he can authenticate details of a pal takeover plot. The 69-year-old Roberts Heads a �500 million Empire that includes a to ministry Hospital and University entered in Tulsa okta., As Well As Ollices in seven countries. He has made headlines recently by exhorting followers to donate $8 million to his ministry if they did t want god to strike him dead. He is also urging them to go to your Check books to help the pal. . Pat Robertson Southern Baptist founder of the $230 million Christian broadcasting network in Virginia Beach va., and possible contender Lor the 1988 Republican presidential nomination. The 57-year-old evangelist considers Bakker s resignation heavenly  the 700 club his weekday. Christian oriented news and interview program has a daily audience of 4.4 million people according to Nielsen figures. Robert h. Schulley ordained in the reformed Church and founder of the $18 million Crystal Cathedral in Southern California televised the hour of Power sunday service from ills Church. Schuller. Whose congregation numbers about 10.000, thinks a pal takeover move was afoot but declined to name the purported instigators. Sunday March 29, 19b7 Rev. John Ank Ehbert a Southern Baptist to evangelist in Chattanooga term claims to have evidence that pal officials tried to cover up reports of Bakker s adultery denying reports that he conspired with Swaggart to seize the pal network Ankerberg said the Only takeover exists in the minds of those who Are fabricating stories to further their own  Ankerberg says he Swaggart and Falwell tried to meet with Bakker lest month to restore a fallen brother but were rebutted by pal officials. According to Ankerberg Sakker still has t come completely clean about his adultery and the alleged cover up. John Stewart an Orange. Calif., attorney and co Host of a Christian radio program called the Bible answer Man and Paul Roper of Anaheim said they knew of Bakker s infidelity years ago. The pair told the Orange county Register the $115,000 Bakker has described As blackmail was actually a settlement of a threatened lawsuit on behalf of Jessica harm the Church Secretary who spent a night with Bakker in a Florida Motel seven years ago. Stewart and Roper say they threatened Bakker with a lawsuit alter he refused to discuss the incident with them. They maintain that Hahn Felt pressured into having sex with Bakker. Stewart said Hahn received Only a few dollars of the $115,000. He refused to say where the rest of the Money went Rev. Marvin Gorman of new Orleans accused Swaggart in a $90 million lawsuit of conspiring with others to ruin his reputation and his National to ministry by spreading false reports that Gorman has had adulterous a lairs. The suit says Gorman told Swaggart Las summer that he committed an immoral act with one woman seven years earlier and that Swaggart and others Are saying he had several such affairs. Gorman resigned in july As pastor of the first Assembly of god Church in new Orleans. Jessica Hahn a 27-year-old Church Secretary from West Babylon. Ny., confirms the 1980 sexual encounter with Bakker but told new York new Day she did t blackmail him Backer s attorney told a news conference that it was always assumed that the Money was going to the girl Lor counselling. The stars and stripes Page 13