European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 Coli inns the stars and stripes wednesday june 3,1987 Flora Lewis arms cuts have to Start someplace anyplace Moscow the strategic balance is finely calculated in weapons systems and numbers but. A tiny Cessna sports plane piloted by a West German teen Ager flies through 500 Miles of so Viet air Welense systems the world s mightiest and lands plunk in red Square before the gales of the Krem Lin. The superpowers fright in the world and Washington says warships flying the american Flag Are enough to assure the safety of shipping in the persian Gulf Oil artery but. An iraqi fighter slams two French missiles into a american frigate disabling it and kill ing 37 sailors. High technology creates fantastic new prospects advancing the prestige and Power of nations but. As sen. Albert Gore or pointed out Here in the last year a half the american space shuttle challenger exploded and a tractor at chernobyl spewed radioactive dust around the world. The theories break Down through both technological and human error. Still there have to be plans programs calculations if anything is to be done. Expectation have to be evoked if they Are Tobe realized. Tom Wicker Gore a candidate for the democratic presidential nomination was addressing some 3,000 delegates to the seventh an Nual Congress of International physicians for the prevention of nuclear made Clear How High expectations have grown for an Early soviet american arms control agreement and a washing Ion Summit conference. Both Genera Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev Anh presi Dent Reagan Scal messages to he con Gress envisaging Accord some serious problems re main in what started out As an Effort to Roll Back the military clock to soviet deployment of ss-20 missiles in the mid 19/os, followed by deployment of Amer ican penning it and cruise missiles i Europe begun in 19�3. Now the talks Are mixed up with arguments about Shorter Range missiles Battlefield Short Range nuclear weapons chemical arms and imbalance in conventional forces. If there is to be any arms reduction Start has to be made someplace. Intermediate Range missiles was t a logical place to Start it was simply How thing evolved. It would have made belter sense particularly for the exposed coun tries on the front line and especially West Germany to move up from the smallest atomic arms which would be used first. Now the West germans Are nervous hat hey will be left As the nuclear fire break in the words of the British prime minister Margaret Thatcher which infuriates Helmut Kohl West Germany s Chancellor. Still that is not the crucial Point because As More and More leaders Reubi and West Are coming to acknowledge the Issue is the threat of War and All the Levels of arms Are linked in creating the fears that created the arsenals. Reversing the spiral is More important than precisely where the turn begins providing there is some Overall Assurance on the new direction. Nato like a supertanker is Munib some and hard to turn around. Alj moment it has proved incapable Qynn swering new soviet proposals a Bah arc coming at a dazzling Pace. The West is a vague but interesting Warsaw jct offer of a new military doctrine ujust Mcmurc conventional forces so they Euld be less Able to launch a massive Wick. It is just not Prosje for the West Ern Alliance to bog Down now and fritter away the would be As destructive to of in cohesion As any thing the russians could up. The reason nato is faltering is w it never got around to working of Jan agreed Overall plan on How to pro Fin reducing arms Levels. As a def Jevc Alliance it pre pared to deter f by meeting threats. But it never Foj Pew Success to the Point of realty bearable to negotiate away those Chr May be a Chance. Gore has come a ill a framework of Steps that could Ranize a hopeful rather than Aig Western response. They in not Only cutting Back missiles but ing to less vulnerable types to make St strike pointless conventional Force reductions which would Rule out sudden mass attack Cooling hot spots such As the War in Afghanistan which heightens fears about soviet intentions in the per Sian Gulf. It is a sensible Clear headed approach. Soviet and american Leaden Are encouraging the world to look for a Turna round in the confrontation. Accidents have happened and with the plane in Moscow and the attack on the Stark they reacted with i habitual restraint. Now both must move on to bring the existing War plans closer to peace Hopes. Now Vexet Limtt twi Sarrico pal grew fat by deceiving Jne god fearing poor As a survivor of the tent revival circuit in my Long ago youth in the South i still remember the smell of the sawdust on a hot August night the awful Soli tude of a Small boy on the mourners Bench the ear nest voices of a pickup choir singing almost persuaded doom comes at As one consequence 1 have since held evangelists especially the television variety in wary regard the Rev Jerry Falwell for instance. But fall Chi looks like a Trappist Monk by comparison with Jim and Tammy fac Bakker the american version of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. That s not because of Jim Bakker s sexual tryst with a Church Secretary although new accounts suggest an uglier Story than the one first to Dor his alleged homosexual activities or maybe just tendencies or be cause of her admitted difficulties with drugs apparently Prescript Ion drugs. These Are not uncommon lapses from the Puritan Norm even among clergymen i believe the Wisest counsel about such matters and Many others is live and let no the More serious indictment of the bakkers is Falwel s the greed the Seif Cente redness the avarice that brought them to which might fairly be added the Dice of preaching the gospel fleecing the those Are ample reasons Why the bakkers Havno right whatever to be restored by Falwell or Anyox Cuseto pal their sex Alicd ministry which a dare to have been devoted mostly to Money Changiz in the Temple. Here is some of the ample evidence 4 elected by Michael Isi Kostand Art hams of the sup Nylon Post auditors of the Arthur Andersen a Pany still Are unable to Trace s12 million from pal accounts. In 1986, of pal s $129 Mill a in revenues think of that Only 2,9 percent ent to charitable programs that year most of the Jug animation b overseas missions were discontinue so that pal could pay Bills for heritage Usa its Christian theme Park at fort Milt but also in 1986, Thea Ikker themselves collected s1.6 million in salaries a a bonuses. In the pint three a months of 1987, salaries and bonuses to Jim Bakker and his top assistants exceeded ii million the bakkers together received $480,000 compensation during one he Day Streli in february. This is the period just before Jim Bakker re signed following disclosure of his celebrated sexual adventure and during which Falwell charges Bakker never set foot on the Campus while at the same time they raided All the checking accounts of hundreds of thousands of dollars. J think they had to know that d Day was imminent and they had no intention of com ing in All the Charlotte observer has reported from 1984 through his resignation in March the bakkers Persona compensation from pal was s4.6 million which accounts among other things for the $449,000house in Palm Springs where these supposed penitents have taken Refuge from an ungrateful world. Now however hey do want to come Back to their ministry so much that Jim Bakker says they d work for nothing if god wants that gut in Case that s not what god wants and the chances seem slight that it is the bakkers have asked pal to pay them Severance of j 300,000 and $ 100,000 his and hers per year for life and to throw in two cars Security and maid service and assorted Perks. The real depravity of All this is not in the figures alone. It s rather in the fact that these huge sums were obtained mostly in Small amounts from honest believing americans Many of them poor As Job s Turkey who in the Christian spirit of Mission and sacrifice sent in their mite for what they believed was the propagation of the Faith. It Cost Money All and More than Many could spare to go Down to the mourners Bench in the bakkers ministry or even just to sit be fore the television set and the enormity of their be trayal of Good and decent people cannot be measured in dollars. In his own television appeals to the same kind of americans Falwell now is trying to take in 120 Millionth pay pal debts. That raises a question with pal assets valued at $110 million after its creditors Are satisfied Why should anyone Send still More Money 10 save this ministry of loot new Rork tuna Nawi Sevki
