European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday february 25, i9bb the stars and stripes Page 7 Swaggart visited seedy motels says paper Baton Rouge. La. Up a Mold resident said she regularly saw Dis graced television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart visit a seedy Section of own known for by the hour motels and prostitutes. Inc new Orleans times Picayune reported. Peggy Carrier. 39. A resident of Tony s Mold on airline Highway told inc newspaper thut detectives hired by rival evangelist Marvin Gorman questioned her about Swaggart s activities. Stic told inc detectives she had seen Swaggart on several occasions visiting the nearby Texas Motel and the travel inn where he would Park his luxury car in the rear the newspaper said. The detectives have been working for lawyers handling a $90 million defamation suit Gorman filed a gains swagman who frequently has railed against pornography from the pulpit and led a Polit ical movement fur Laugher enforcement of Laws against smut. Gorman was defrocked last year by she assemblies of god after charges from Swaggart thai he had been involved in multiple sexual affairs. Gorman who admitted to having one adulterous Liaison seven years earlier reportedly provided the Church with a photograph showing Swaggart leaving a hotel with a known prostitute. After a meeting of More than eight hours monday leaders of the assemblies of god ordered Swaggart to undergo two years of rehabilitation and banned his preaching for the next three months Fol lowing his detailed confession of a moral Swaggart s ministry contributes Sto million annually to the assemblies of god. The ministry employs an estimated 1,100 workers and was receiving about s 500,000 in donations every Day. Neither Swaggart nor Church leaders have made Public the nature of the moral failure but various Media reports indicated it involved paying a prostitute to perform pornographic acts. Swaggart has not responded to the re ports but in a tearful confession before followers at his family worship Center he said inc Media had been fair objective and even compassionate in cover ing the scandal. An unidentified Church source quoted by the Washington Post said Swaggart who initiated the investigation or the Jessica Fontin sex scandal that toppled fellow evangelist Jim Bakker has had b lifelong fascination with pornography. During the meeting with the 19-Mem bar Louisiana District Council of the assemblies of cod Swaggart confessed to specific incidents of moral failure and agreed to the terms of his rehabilitation Church officials said. The Church s most popular preacher was not defrocked like Bakker because he confessed and submitted to rehabilitation members Ocie Council said. Swaggart s2, sail nothing to reporters monday night and resumed Home Lobaton Rouge As Cecil Janway superintendent of the Church s Louisiana District read a statement. Baud on this detailed confession and the evidence we observed of True humility and repentance we have offered him rehabilitation in accordance with the by Laws of the general Council and Louisiana District of Lite assemblies of cod Jan Way said. Janway said Swaggart will immediately begin his two year rehabilitation. He will no relieved of his duties As co i St or of the family worship Center in Baton Rouge during his three month sus pension and will receive counselling and supervision in weekly conferences with three members of the Louisiana District presbytery although the disciplinary action Al lows Swaggart to preach overseas during the first three months he has cancelled a three Day crusade hat was scheduled to Start Friday on the West indie islands of Trinidad and Tobago. Another bins Reagan lineup Washington Iarj Wiiiam l. Bail in president Reagan s nominee to be Secretary of the Navy brings to 15 the number of High Reagan administration officials with roman numerals after their names. The list includes nine Ells four us and two ivs. According to a directory of administration officials the ills in addition to Ball who is known around the White House As will Are at the Pentagon Secretary of defense Frank c. Carlund 111 and undersecretary of the Navy a Lawrence Garrett 111. At the Treasury department Secretary James a. Baker Iii. At inc office of management arid budget director James c. Miller lit and assistant director for National Security l. Wayne Amy 111. Al the Commerce department assistant Secre tary for economic development Orson g. Swindle at the Justice department attorney Genera Edwin Meese 111. At the interstate Commerce commission commissioner i. The is include Charles Tyroler it of inc Intelli gence oversight Board i. Curtis muck ii. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for the National oceanic and atmospheric administration it. Gen. Claudi us Watts 11, comptroller of the department of tic air Force and Wendell l. Wilkic ii general coun Sel of the department of education. The ivs Are Carlucci s Deputy. William 11. Taft in. And transportation Secretary James h. Burnley Navy Sec relay lbs Kinale William l. Bait Iii. Soviets hiding Many missiles Helms claims Washington a sen. Jesse Helms , says most . Intelligence agencies now believe the soviet Union is hiding hundreds of potent medium rung missiles in Europe. The Reagan administration said his assertion is incorrect Helms commenting As the Senate foreign relations committee continued its examination of the new treaty Banning All medium Range missiles in Europe has repeatedly said estimates from the defense intelligence Agency indicate the existence of at least 300 More is 20 missiles than those declared by the soviets. The senator who opposes inc treaty said on tues Day he now has been Lold a majority of . Intelli gence agencies support that View. But sen Claiborne Pell Del. The committee chair Man read an administration statement denying that. The statement called the Helms assertion incorrect and added the majority of the National intelligence Community docs not support the View the soviets have withheld a number ofss-20s." the statement said that till data on the number of such weapons will be reviewed when the soviets sub Mit an updated report on their medium Range missile Force after the new treaty is ratified by the Senate. That report will be verified by on site inspection the statement said. It said that Cia director William Webster speak ing for the entire intelligent Community has sail the submitted soviet data. Tails within . Intelli gence estimates " the ss-20 is a Mobile highly accurate medium Range m missile cach of which carries three nuclear warheads. Providence firefighters end three Day sick out Providence . A eighty seven firefighters who had been on duly for More than three Days without a break were sent Home tuesday As col leagues ended a sick out and returned to work. More than 100 firefighter had called in sick saturday sunday and monday despite a judge s order that they report for july. Thirty three firefighters who defied an order to appear in court monday were held in contempt tuesday by judge Americo Campanella. Campanella who continued the hear ing on the status of inc rest of the fire fighters who called in sick said he would decide later what Penally to assess against the 31. Mayor Joseph r. Zaolino urged that no jail Lime be imposed although the City continued to press for contempt citations to discourage similar incidents in the future. Fire chief Michael f. Misc estimated the sick out which the City claims was illegal Cost the City about 584,000 in overtime As firefighters who went to work at 6 . Friday were kept on duly through inc sick out. Tic Girkout stemmed from a dispute Over language in a contract ratified by firefighters in december but not yet approved by the cily Council. The Union contends the City is trying to renege on a provision that Calls for an officer to be placed in charge of each Rescue unit and also claims the City is not replacing worn out or damaged equip ment As promised stud ends make mushroom Cloud official Symbol Richland Wash a High school students in this atomic City voted overwhelmingly tuesday to keep a nuclear mushroom Cloud As the Symbol of their Kicman High school bombers. The mushroom Cloud used informally at the school for almost two decade had been called offensive by some teachers and students who said it represented nuclear destruction. Principal Gus Nash said 1,205 of inc school s 1,300 students cast ballots with the mushroom Cloud getting 1,084 votes a caricature of an atomic bomb 45. A picture of a b-17 bomber 40 and three atomic rings 36. The Issue was an emotional one in this City of ,000 adjacent to the Hanford nuclear reservation where for More than 40 years the Federal government has made plutonium for nuclear weapons. I Don t think the student body sees it a a Symbol of destruction or said Marcia Cillan. Vice presi Dent of the associated student body. I Don t think it signifies anything other than Richland High ninety percent of inc students voting in the school election agreed with her. Head the drive to reject the Symbol said the students decision was wrong. It stands for nuclear holocaust and inc end of the world he said. It s an inappropriate Symbol for High school kids to be
