European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. July 21, 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 7 survivors told god has opened his arms9 Balch Springs. Texas a a pastor told More than 300 mourners squeezed into a Small Church Here Hal god has opened his Arm to teen agers killed by a Flash flood that engulfed them while they were at a Church Camp. The Rev. Nathan Benton covered his face with his hands and sobbed As the congregation at Seagoville Road Baptist Church held hands and prayed. Hearts Are broken and crushed and our courage is almost gone but god help us at this time Ben Ion said. Survivors of the Accident and their relatives and friends cried and hugged each other after the service. Handwritten notices of funerals scheduled this week for four of the victims were taped to the door of the Sanctuary. I feet bad i made it and they did to said Gene Marsh 14. Everybody has gotten closer to each other. We re like a big family up Here. It s just going to take us a while to get through it All  the bus and a Church Van were near a Ford on the Guadalupe River Friday morning when the Drivers at tempted to turn through water that had risen onto the River s Bank department of Public safety trooper do Wayne a Ruckl said at a news conference saturday. But the bus stalled in the rapidly rising water and the Driver ordered he passengers to get out and scramble to land. Pounding Waves scattered the group and washed the bus andean away. Many of the 43 people in the vehicles were res cued while they Clung to branches downstream. A photo Mounter hug at prayer service for River victims. Most of the dead were members of the Church or students at affiliated Balch Springs Christian facade my said Benton who is principal of the shoot. We know where they arc right now. God has opened his arms to receive those we have lost and they Are in a better place Benton said. They la All be missed. Many have gone to school Here for a Long  As recorded music played Bonlon s wife Teresa Sang a Solo accompanied by the Click of news Cam eras he Whir of ceiling tans and the muffled sobs of the congregation. I i Don l Ever remember being put in As Lough a position As this Benton said. It s been Lough but i believe there s a god he said breaking into tears. That s the Only thing that s holding us together. It s been so hard but you be pulled us through. Lord you told us there would be valleys. Lord you told us there would be Mountain lops. God we need your Comfort he prayed. The vehicles had been bound from pot o Gold ranch to a rafting expedition said Richard Koons 26, the Church s youth minister who was driving the bus after sunday s service Benton said the we Klong session at pot o Gold ranch was for spiritual guid Ance and strength and that kind of  he said the tragedy will draw the Church closer together. It will definitely survive it s been Strong already. It will even get stronger. It sure  Hahn knew what she was doing Tammy Bakker says san Francisco a Tammy fac Bakker says Jessica Hahn knew exactly what she was doing when she travelled to Florida in 1980 for the fateful meeting with Jim Bakker that eventually led to Trie pal scandal. Mrs. Darker who with her husband is battling to regain control of the pal ministry they left after reports of Bak Ker s tryst with Hahn broke had harsh words for the former Church Secretary in an interview published sunday in the san Francisco examiner. Thai girl knew exactly what she was dicing when she went Down there mrs. Bakker said besides it the sexual encounter Only lasted 15 minutes. -. And How i know is that Jimmy was Laic to a telethon. He looked at his  Bakker turned pal Over to the Rev. Jerry Falwell in March after reports sur faced of the tryst with Hahn and pal s decision to pay her 1265,000 for her science Bakker has since claimed that he was locked Inlo leaving. Hahn who received a Small portion of the Money before the incident was revealed in March has said she was invited to Florida by another evangelist just to meet Bakker and was lured into the sexual encounter in a hotel room. Hahn was unavailable for comment on mrs. Bakker s statement sunday be cause she has agreed to make no Public statements until september when a maj Azine article detailing the sexual tryst is scheduled to be released. In the past however she has repeatedly maintained that she was a victim. In the interview or. Bakker also said her husband immediately reported his infidelity to her and expressed remorse. The bakkers have been in san fran Cisco to attend the 80th birthday party of their attorney Mclvin Belli and to plan Legal strategies for regaining control of their religious Empire from the people who stole it from us she said. We will Start another ministry mrs. Bakker said. We Don t have Ami Money but we have the support of our pal part  mrs. Bakkeli said at the time of her husband s encounter with Hahn she was unhappy and finding it difficult to accept her husband s 24-hour-a-Day Job. I Felt neglected she said adding that they separated for three months but then reunited because i realized that i loved him so  since the scandal broke she said. We re closer than Ever. I love him with All my heart. His is my Best Friend. We Are lovers. Lovers and  korean sailors woman accused of spreading aids says she was banned from of basely Home wit most of their pay Boston a korean sailors who staged a two Day strike on an american owned Tanker after they earned an agent had squandered their pay flew Home with most of the Money they were owed the 17 Crew members were Given j70,000 before they left from Logan International Airport the Rev. Paul Chap Man of the seamen s Church Institute of new York and new Jersey said in s a Happy ending a really Fine end  Taid Charmin whose organization and others fed the koreans after the Cap Tain locked them out or the ship s mess Hall. It s not quite All the overtime they were entitled to but they re  a Crew from Yugoslavia was scheduled to replace the koreans on the co go Regent. Chapman said Grunstad maritime inc. Or Boca Raton fla., which owns the ship agreed to pay the Back wages and Tor the men s flight to South Korea. The sailors started the strike when they Learned an agent in Korea responsible for paying a portion of their wages to their fam Ilies had t paid them for three months. The ship s norwegian Captain . Jensen said the agent apparently lost the Money speculating on the Gold Market. Attic Crew members had Only bread and water for two Days before Chap twi s group and the new England sea men s Mission brought their plight to the attention of authorities. Plattsburgh . A a woman accused of intentionally spread ing the aids virus by having sex with men at a military base says she is angry Al being portrayed As a vindictive prostitute with a Enid Joe against servicemen. If i wanted to spread aids i could try to sleep Wilh a different Guy every night. I Haven t done that the woman told the Pittsburgh press Republican. She said she had no grudge against military men and had never taken Money for sex. Early last month. Col. Gary l. Hicks commander of the j90th combat sup port group Al Plattsburgh air Force base banned her from the base the woman told the newspaper Friday she said Hicks accused her in a letter of purposely spreading an incurable Dis ease and cancelled All her military privileges which she received because of her 1984 marriage to a Navy Man except medical care. The woman identified Only As Kathy told the newspaper she regrets possibly spreading thud disease. I m Only talking to reporters now be cause e want to give my Side of the Story she said. She said she does t know How she contracted the aids virus but said it might have been from a 1984 blood transfusion or from her husband who left her after he resumed from seven months Al sea. In the Case of the transfusion doctors have been Able to confirm Only that one of two units of blood she was Given after a miscarriage was not infected she said. The woman admitted Hal she had sex with three men one of whom has tested positive for exposure to the aids virus without telling them she had the virus. Previously she had told two other men she had the virus and had sex Wilh hem she said. Telling a Man she has the aids virus can kill a relationship she said. How would you react if some woman you were thinking of getting involved Wilh told you she Nad aids most men they re gone when you say that she said. She said she also found it difficult to Tell a Man to use a condom. For me As a woman in was just As hard As telling a Guy Hal 1 had Al is she said. If i could turn the hands of Lime Back. 1 would. But i d turn it Back to before 1 got aids she told the newspaper. The woman disputed reports Hal she has aids. She said that so far she has Only tested positive Tor the virus and has slightly swollen Lymph nodes. Three children die in refrigerator grand rapids Mich. A a 6 year old girl and her two younger Broth ers were found dead in a refrigerator be Hind a business near their Home police said sunday. Investigators said there were no signs that the children had been assaulted and there was no suspicion of foul play. The victims were identified As Dor Othy m. Stiles 6 Joseph s. Stiles 5 and Christopher a. Stitch 4. The names of the parents were not Given. The children had been reported miss ing from their Home Aboul 8 30 . Sat urday police said and neighbors helping search for them found the bodies in the refrigerator Aboul 11 . Saturday. Police did not May How Long the Chil Dren were believed to have been trapped in he refrigerator