European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday april 1.1987 ., France to Settle aids test dispute Washington api the United suits and France on tuesday jointly announced an agreement 10 Settle a longstanding Legal dispute aver Patent rights to aids screening tests. President Reagan and French prime minister Jac ques Chirac who is in the United stain on his first official visit announced an end to the dispute and pledged closer future cooperation. The dispute has soured relations Between And French researchers. The agreement Between the Department or health and human services and the Pasteur Institute in Paris settles a lawsuit tiled by scientists at the Institute concerning a Patent on an aids test developed by Scientists the Accord also will help clarify Ibe chronology of scientific events that led to discovery and isolation of the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syn drome. Announcing the agreement during an appearance with Chirac in the East room of the White House Reagan said the two medical groups will share the Patent and each party will contribute so percent of the royalties received to establish and support an International aids research foundation. This foundation which will also raise private funds will sponsor ads re Latch research and will do Nate 25 percent of us funds they receive to education and research or aids problems in less developed the president added i just want to add How glad i am about thai agreement to fight against this terrible disease Chine said. We in he United Stales and France have very very Good and efficient scientists and we will now work together and also create a foundation to fight against aids Chirac said. And it is i think a great step to be successful in this very important Battle. This agreement open a new Era in Franco Ameri can cooperation allowing France and the United slates to join their efforts to control this terrible Dis ease in the Hopes of speeding the development of an aids vaccine or cure Reagan said. Heiress sues Church for return of $6.6 million Worcester mass a an heiress suing for the return of j6.6 million she gave a fundamentalist Church was coerced into donating the Money by a Pas Lor who taunted and belittled her the woman s lawyer said. He had a Tittle song that went Betsy the Heifer the Queen of All cows she gives More milk than any cow allows " Gordon Walker said monday. Elizabeth Dovydenas contends that the Rev. Carl h. Stevens and other members of the Bible Speaks Church lied to her won her Devotion and pressured her into making the gifts so he could Start a television ministry. But on the first Day of trial defense attorney Roy Grumman argued Dovydenas made the gifts freely. She knew what be was doing. She was no walking around Zombie in a fog Gulman said. The Church res members Are not Hare Krishna they Are not Moo nits they arc not Grumman said Dovydenas renounced the Church Only after her father Wallace Dayton threatened to have her declared mentally incompetent and take her children away Dayton was a founder of Dayton Hud son corp., the nation s fifth largest retail store Chain. Grumman. Who also represents disgraced television evangelist Jim Bakker said the Bible Speaks gave Dovydenas the most Salis action. The greatest Joy in a life that otherwise was lived As a Black sheep in this prominent family the woman s sister. Sally Clement was expected to be Cross examined after she testified monday that Dovydenas changed Moryc Day during the three years she was a member of the Church ending in late 1985. During her time with the Church Dovydenas of ellia Belh div Odenas in photo pc Rcd preoccupied and Spacey dyed her hair Black and began wearing heavy makeup and High heels Clement said. The sister cried As she told of a family confrontation in which Dovydenas said her memory was so poor she had to write constant notes and tape conversations to remember what was said. The lawsuit originally hied in Superior court in Phi Tofield was moved to bankruptcy court at the Church s request to give it Protection from Dovydenas and other creditors if it loses Dovydenas was described by her attorney As easily manipulated. He said Stevens told her that her Only Worth As a person was in the Money she could give the Church. He and other members suggested her gifts could cure the migraine headaches of Stevens wife and free a Bible Speaks pastor allegedly being tortured in Roma Nia she responded Jib gins totalling 16.6 million. Walker said. The attorney also accused Stevens of idling Dovy Denas her husband and family were beset by Demon and All the demons in hell would Rise up to keep her from giving her Money to the the Church that Stevens founded in the Early 1960s claims 16,000 members in 17 staut and 31 foreign countries. Dovydenas was a member i rom 1982 to i9ss. Davyde Iii was accompanied " Rauert by her Hus band free Lance photographer Jonas Dovydenas and her Mother. Stevens is in the Northwest lecturing 10 Bible Speaks branches and is not expected to return until next week when he is scheduled to testify his attorney said. To evangelists image suffering by the associated press most viewers say television evangelists arc Loo concerned with raising Money and the Public expects the pal sex scandal to shrink audiences and make them less generous according to results of two polls released tuesday. Half the people who watch the pro Grams have an unfavourable opinion of them and three fourths say most to ministers place too much emphasis on raising Money a new York times lbs poll showed. And a los Angeles times poll showed Public approval of former pal minister Jim Bakker and fellow assemblies of god preacher Jimmy Swaggart has declined is Nee july. About three fourths of All viewers expect More accusations against other ministers to follow the scandal thai began with disclosure of Bakker s sexual encounter with a Church Secretary seven years ago. The new York times said. Bakker resigned As head of pal on March 19. About one fourth of viewers who Send Money to the ministries said the Bakker scandal would cause them to Cut Back. The times lbs poll showed. Only one in 25 said they would Send More. The sos people who said they made a Point of watching one or More of the seven Welt known television evangelists split evenly when asked if the Devil was responsible for the troubles of the Bak ims and the pal ministry with 43 per cent saying yes and 43 percent no. Bakker formerly headed the pal organization which stands for people that love and Praise the lord and appeared with his wife. Tammy on pal s nation ally distributed television show. The evangelists cited in the time lbs pull were Bakker swagman the revs. Jerry Falwell Rex Humbard Oral Rob erts pal Robertson and Robert Schullr. Seventy two percent of the non View ing Public in the times lbs poll said they had an unfavourable opinion of Tele vision evangelists. Only 6 percent said they had a favourable View of them. The times lbs poll interviewed 1,394 people by Telephone March 28-29, Bakker Hopes to regain pulpit Muskegon. Mich. A the Rev. Jim Bakker who re signed As Leader of Ilic pal ministry because of a in so with a Church Secretary. Said he Hopes to return to the pulpit despite the hatred other television evangelists Are expressing toward him. I guess it s a free for All Lime right now. Bakker said in an interview published in monday s editions of he Muskegon chronicle. Bakker a native of Muskegon called the news paper of sunday. Philadelphia suspect charged with 2nd killing Philadelphia a a self styled minister accused of keeping women captive in his basement was charged tuesday in a second killing police said. Gary Heidnik charged lost week with the death of one woman he is accused of holding prisoner tuesday was ordered held without bail in the death of a second said detective Edward Tenuto. Investigators meanwhile Are studying unsolved homicides for possible links to Heidnik whose Cap Tives said he lured them to his Home where he repeat edly tortured and raped them in the basement. Tenuto said Heidnik was brought from the detention Center where he is being Kepi isolated from other prisoners to police Headquarters at 6 . And was served with a warrant charging him with murder kid napping unlawful restraint rape and Possession of an instrument of crime in the death of Sandra Lindsay a 24-year-old retarded woman. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for april g. Heidnik 43, faces a preliminary hearing wednesday on murder rape and kidnapping charges in the death of Deborah Dudley 23. As officers continued scar Diing Heidnik s North Philadelphia Home ? pathologist reported monday that human bom.1 found near a shit in the Back Yard indicated the remains of one Vii him were fed to Heid n in s two dogs. Meanwhile a women s group Irvine in help three of the four survivors said the Ca Lias ten inc Community terrorized. The fourth woman has been hospitalized. Police discovered the woman. Lisa Thomas 19, and two others half naked and shackled to a pipe in acid Nik s basement Early last wednesday after Jos finn Rivera 16, escaped from Heidnik s car. Heidnik s Roommate Cyril Brown. It. Earlier was charged with murdering Lindsay. Dudley Whoso body was dumped in u new Jersey stale Park allegedly refused to i operate with Heidnik and died by Lindsay died after hanging for Days with one shackled in the basement Ceil ing according to Rivera. We Are looking into past unsolved deaths capt. Richard i Lise said. No murder is Ever closed. We have no reason to believe fluid Iii is involved but Chr rare some
