European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday March 17, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 Swaggart family pleads for donations Baton Rouge. La. A the wife and son of disgraced evangelist Jimmy Swaggart pleaded with television viewers tuesday to Send huge do nations to keep the $140 million a Yea Jimmy Swaggart ministries afloat. The holy spirit is telling you right now to Send a Large gift of help to carry my word my program and my message around the world. Frances Swaggart said on the ministry s we Klong telethon. Don t walk run to that phone to make a pledge. Jimmy Swaggart s son Donnic urged. Tuesday s pleas were made in the third Day of a scheduled we Klong Tele Thon aimed at raising Money Tor the ministry. Tuesday s show also coincided with Swaggart s 54th birthday. Donnic Swaggart often sobbing wished his father Happy birthday and pledged ill never leave or forsake  Donnie and his Mother said that unless the telethon raises enough Money some of the ministry s work in foreign countries will have to shut Down. In earlier broadcasts they said that even the ministry s regular daily television show May have to Stop. Swaggart said in a Jim publication that the ministries were about $14.7 million in deficit through february. The announcement is made in the March 1988 edition of the evangelist a Magazine published by the ministry. In an article outlining the telethon. Swaggart claimed expenses average $ 13 million a month. The article did no detail How the Money is spent or explain How the deficit was created. Swaggart has not participated in the telethon. He voluntarily stepped Down from his pulpit at the 7,500-scat family worship Center and his worldwide television ministry shortly after news reports of his alleged involvement witha prostitute. National leaders of the assemblies of god denomination will de cide later this month whether to discipline him for committing sexual misconduct. Swaggart has publicly confessed this family Church and television congregation that he had committed a snout has not publicly revealed what sin he committed. Published reports however have alleged that Swaggart was photographed leaving a seedy new Orleans area Motel room with a prostitute. It also misreported that Swaggart paid prostitutes to perform lewd acts while he watched. Since Swaggart stepped Down the ministry has stopped work on one of its construction projects Laid off some 100 employees and cancelled at least two ministry crusades. Mrs. Swaggart and her son said re Cord donations arc crucial to keep the ministry alive. God is going to touch you to give the largest gift you have Ever Given mrs. Swaggart said. The last few weeks satan has pressed his hand Down Strong to destroy the ministries. Family worship Center co pastor Jim Rentz said news reports about Swaggart arc not the truth. They Are being  he did not elaborate. In the Magazine article Swaggart complained the news Media is opposed to us. Most of the world s Reli Gions Are opposed to us. Sometimes i think every single denomination i America is opposed to  Hollywood legends Campaign Aga psf co Orizal on Washington a Burt Lancaster was the fast talking Tough Guy James Stewart his drawling partner with Homespun common sense As they Rode into town to fight for a principle Only this time twas real life not a movie. The two Hollywood legends began a two Day whirl of lobbying in Congress and on television talk shows tuesday to plead Tor the preservation of their film classics against modern moguls out to make a  Shook his Finger at a packed room of re porters arguing passionately for a halt to the controversial colouring of films. Media entrepreneur Ted Turner has led the Colori nation drive releasing computer coloured versions of such classics As Casablanca and Stewart s it s a wonderful  All of this is done for them to make a Buck said Lancaster. Let them go out and make an honest  Stewart told reporters in his halting cadence that he agreed with Lancaster bul for me to say the same thing would Lake so very much longer i better not say  two were joined in their rounds by directors Peter Bogdanovich and Fred Zinneman and several other top american filmmakers. The Hollywood push for legislation included testimony before a congressional committee two weeks ago by directors Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. Stewart said he came to Washington because he was appalled by the Colori action of Frank Capra s it s wonderful life after Turner bought the rights to it. As Frank s health deteriorated he found to his horror that it s a wonderful life was one of the first films that was colonized. It broke his heart an emotional Stewart said. I am determined to do whatever i can to make things right for Frank Capra he  directors and actors want Congress to expand the nation s copyright Laws to give directors and writ ers perpetual moral rights Over what can be done to their works. Under a plan supported by the directors Guild of America those who hold exhibition Rigels to Corn James Stewart listens us fellow actor Burt Lancaster addresses a news conference in Washington. Pc cd movies would not be allowed to make changes such As adding color without the filmmakers permission. I Sec m been distorted and the movie chopped up said Lan. Think a doing to me myself Loday in movies where the Story has Mccaster. Yet my name is on it. 1 think what arc they a nine in met they Don t own me. They re using my name As a kind of draw. That s felonious  although he was passionate before the new Cam eras Lancaster said he toned Down his performance before members of Congress. We re dealing with politicians we have to be Little political Loo he said. Shuttle scheduled to retrieve doomed satellite Washington a an 11-ton satellite in orbit three years longer than planned will be rescued by a space shuttle Crew next  months before it would fall Back to Earth in pieces. The National aeronautics and space administration on tuesday included the retrieval of the satellite the Long Dura Tion exposure facility in a new schedule of flights and cargoes. The Rescue was add Dlo a Mission beginning july 13. The orbit of the satellite which gauged the effects of space s hostile environment on Metal coatings and on 13 million seeds is decaying and officials fear it will crash through the atmosphere and break up if it is not recaptured by mid-1990. The new schedule makes no change in the Date of the much delayed first Post challenger flight now set for aug. 4. There have been no american manned missions in space since the challenger the 25lh shuttle Mission exploded on liftoff Jan. 28, 1986 and killed its seven member Crew. The six sided Long duration expo sure facility def in space jargon was tossed overboard by astronauts in april 1984 to be hit by meteors pelted by cosmic rays and corroded by oxygen atoms. The bus size Frame held 57 experiments including one that tested 120 varieties of vegetables fruits and Flowers to Sec whether cosmic radiation caused use Ful genetic changes. The def was Mohave been retrieved by another shuttle Mission 10 months later and brought Back in the cargo Bay. But delays in the space program combined with grounding of All shuttles after the challenger disaster kept the 11-ton satellite in its lonely journey around Earth. The $14 million package has no on Board propulsion systems or ability to transmit signals. It is orbiting 292 Miles above Earth according to the North american de sense come. The Nasa schedule also Calls for six Small and medium sized expendable rockets to be launched this year four in 1989 and seven in 1990. The shuttle schedule reverses the order of one military and one civilian flight Early next car. This enables Nasa to orbit a pair of huge communications satellites earlier than planned. They will be needed in june 1989 when the $1 Bil lion Hubble space Telescope is launched from a shuttle. Nasa places such emphasis on the two communications satellites that the will be the principal cargoes on the first and third flights in the new series. To Gether they will provide communications with the shuttle 95 percent of inc Lime in is in orbit and be a space born switch Board for Many satellites. Nasa was forced to change its Priori ties for shuttle payloads in order to be ready to launch the Magellan probe to map Venus at a time when the least amount of fuel will be needed to traverse inc 90 million Miles. The Magellan flight is scheduled for april 27 and it will be the first . Plan Clary Mission since a Pioneer probe was launched to Venus in 1978. Nasa has scheduled the launch of the Hubble space Telescope for june i 1989, and another important planetary night Galileo for oct. 8.1989. Gal Ileo is a cooperative project with Ger Many to Survey Jupiter and its Moons. The first shuttle flight will have a five Man Crew commanded by Navy  Hauck