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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. March 30, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7probe focuses on new pal Leader Swaggart says Dortch involved in cover up by the associated pms assemblies or god officials who arc investigating to preacher Jim Batter plan Lomm this week with his Succes Sor who has come under fire for arranging a settlement Tor a woman who had a sexual encounter with Bakker. The Rev. Richard Dortch who be came president or the pal ministry after Bakker resigned March 19, reportedly was a principal in negotiating a $265,000 settlement for Jessica Hahn Bakker has described the Money As  the Rev Jimmy Swaggart a severe critic of Bakker has called it part of a cover up and said Dortch should resign. Swaggart said the Hierarchy of the assemblies or god of which he is a Mem Ber appears frightened by the influential pal Power my own denomination is to the very Edge of being powerless Swaggart said. In s taking the very sinew and the Power of the spirit Una muscle to overcome Christian to to overcome a so called preacher who fell into  the Rev. Jerry Fol will who stepped in at Bakker request to chair the pal Board said a criminal investigation was possible if Hahn was paid to keep quiet. When you gel to paying extortion Money that s real close to the Edge especially if it s not your Money Falwell was quoted As saying in saturday s combined editions of the Atlanta journal and the Atlanta Constitution. Bakker and Dortch both resigned from the assemblies of god on March 19, but the pentecostal denomination has the option of dismissing a minister rather than accepting a resignation. We will meet next week and have requested Dortoh to appear the Rev. Tom Whiddon. Assistant superintendent of the North Carolina District Council of the assemblies of god said Friday. The reason we re looking at him is because he has submitted his res ignation. Because of All the publicity i feel like we re just being Nice to brother Dortch Whiddon said. We re saying to him you have requested this resignation. We re going to be discussing it. You can be there Paul Roper a los Angeles business Man and member of the assemblies of god said he took up harm s Case in 1984. When to was unable to get pal to agree to a religious tribunal to review her charges. Roper said he sent pal the draft of a civil complaint alleging false imprisonment infliction of emotional distress and assault and Battery. Dortch set up a meeting on feb. 7, i98s, in California. Roper said within two weeks they had agreed on a settlement of j 265,000 the Price of a Home Bakker was Selling m the Lime. Roper said. Of thai amount 1150,000 was put in a Trust fund. Hash receives interest on in monthly and will gel the principal at the end of 20 years. Roper said. Of the remaining $115,000, she received $20,300 and the rest went toward expenses including Roper s fee which he refused to disclose. He said he and an attorney agreed to oversee the Trust fund for 20 years and prepare Hahn s income tax returns with out charge. In an interview published saturday in the Washington Post Roper said Hahn sought his help after she had been badgered into signing a document that made the incident appear to be her fault or at her instigation. Ole miss Campus mourning deaths of 5 coeds five Small wooden crosses Mark the spot where the University or Mississippi coeds were kilted. Oxford miss. A the deaths of five sorority Sisters after a ear was knocked into a group participating in a Charity walk a lion have sent the University of Mississippi Campus into mourning. In will probably gel a Little worse before it gels better said Bryan Smith of Corinth who was leaving for his Hometown to attend sunday funeral services for Junior Hess Worsham a Friend since Junior High it will probably hit everyone this weekend the delayed reaction worries University officials. Four sessions about dealing with grief were scheduled for students sunday. A greek olympics event was postponed As were Many other activities. The Chi Omega chapter whose five members were killed cancelled weekend plans for an annual party Tor 250 High school students interested in joining. Chi Omega officials and alumnae nationwide have called or visited the 148-Mcmber chapter. Chancellor Gerald Turner borrowing words used by former Oxford resident William Faulkner urged 3,000 students who gathered for the Friday memorial service to endure and  we must not forsake each other. We must draw together As a Community Turner said Nancy Morton president of the 9,054-Sludcnt body agreed. We re going to have to become United to overcome this she said we re All asking the same questions. Each one of us knew one of them or somebody in the  hundreds of students lined up to donate blood for the nine people hospitalized after the Accident. A pickup truck pulling a Hay Baler slammed into a car that was trailing 20 walkers on the shoulder of the four Lane Roadway thursday afternoon flipping it into the group the state Highway patrol reported. Maria von Trapp of sound of music Fame Dies Stowe it. A Maria von Trapp whose escape from the nazis with her Hus band and children inspired the sound of music died saturday. She was 82. Mrs. Von Trapp was hospitalized wednesday Al the Copley Hospital in Morrisville for gangrene of the Small Bowel along with heart and diabetic problems said her son Johannes von Trapp Maria was a truly remarkable woman inspirational and Loving. She will be deeply missed by All who knew her actress Julie Andrews who played mrs von Trapp in the movie version of the sound of music said saturday through spokesman Gene Schwam family members planned to meet sunday to arrange the funeral said Gail Lanfranconi who works for the von Trapps at their resort. A list of survivors was not immediately available. Mrs von Trapp was 33 when she fled her native Austria in 1938 with her Chil Dren and her husband the late Baron Georg von Trapp. Their Story was dramatized in a Book play and Academy award winning movie. The Trapp family singers toured Europe and the United states for several years before settling in Vermont where the mountains and people reminded them of Austria. Their Home atop a Hillside in store eventually became the site of a music Camp and was expanded in 1962 into n popular year round resort. Safes Spring Forward 3 weeks earlier this year Washington  
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