European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday june 2,1988 Bakker wants to buy Back restore pal to the people fort Mill . A fallen pal founder Jim Bakker returned to the heritage Usa theme Park tuesday and said he would try to buy Hack the ministry if it were liquidated in bankruptcy court. "1 would set up offices near Here which i probably will do. As every piece of ministry comes up for Sale i would buy it to restore it to the people it was meant for Bakker said in a break in a meeting with pal attorneys his attorneys and Roe Messner the primary builder of the heritage Usa theme Park. I want to the ministry restored 100 percent Balker said adding right now it looks Bleak for the ministry. He said the meeting was Loback up Mossner s claims against pal in the bankruptcy proceedings. Mossner next to the internal Revenue service is the largest single creditor in the pal bankruptcy proceed Hakker left pal after charges that he paid off Church Secretary Jessica Hahn to keep quiet about a sexual encounter with him and hat was followed by reve lations of a lavish lifestyle led by Bakker and his . When he came out of the world outreach Center where the meeting was being held about a dozen peo ple shouted their support and gave him hugs. He said after the meeting he would be visiting friends and relatives and ending around the it grounds. Bakker said he was Here at Mossner s request an charged that most of the records he had left behind when he left pal in March 1987 have been destroyed. Almost All of the blueprints of All the buildings Are missing Bakker said. When asked who might have destroyed the records he said any of them who might want to take Over the ministry pressed for specifics he said i Don t asked How he would buy Back pal he said "1 have a lot of he again would not provide specifics. Bakker said the meeting did not touch on whether he should come Back to the ministry but he said that he would it he were asked. I think everybody else has had a Chance. It s being sold off what would be wrong with giving Jim and Tammy a Chance Bakker said. The ministry is in bankruptcy court now with up to 130 million in debts. A reorganization plan calling for the Sale of much of pal s assets is up for final approval by . Bankruptcy judge Rufus Reynolds on june16 in Columbia. Baiter new York City schools to expel students who assault teachers new York. A any student who assaults a teacher will be expelled and school Security will be beefed up officials decided tuesday after a rash of tucks on teachers. The notion you have a right to free education is assumed Chancellor Richard Green said. Students who violate that right by assaulting teachers or any other school personnel will forfeit that right for the res of the school year he said students who engage in anything beyond a Normal Fig lit. Will find themselves without a Public education in new York previously students were suspended or transferred to other schools. The decision came after Green met with mayor Edward i Koch the City s District attorneys and the police tummies incr about violence in the schools. Koch said Security measures at the schools will in clude Metal detectors electromagnetic locks listening devices and More police. He added later that the City was researching whether it needs action by the state legislature to permit expulsions. Just hours after the announcement a Bronx teacher was grazed in the leg by a stray Bullet As she left her school but the police said the shooter apparently was not a student. The recent incidents include an attack with a base Ball Bat against one teacher and the injury of another who was burned when she picked up a firecracker tossed into her classroom. Board of education spokesman Frank Sabrino said the number of serious incidents such As assault Rob Bery sex crimes weapons Possession and drug Viola Lions is running about 10 percent ahead of the 3,528 reported during the last school year. From july i to april 30, 969 assaults included 198 against teachers he said. Koch said at a City Hall news conference that the expulsion policy was the first and most important action that came out of the meeting of the officials. Police commissioner Benjamin Ward said More police will be assigned to patrol at schools where needed. We Are committed to covering those schools at the beginning of the school Day and at the Ondof the school Day he said. He estimated that about 200 of the system s 932 schools will have police officers assigned Al least until the end of the school year. Stateside store of chemicals closes classroom buildings new York a Hunter College has closed two classroom buildings because they contain tons of chemicals that have turned toxic and potentially explosive with age the City s environmental department said monday. Some of he chemicals found in science laboratories and storage rooms were As much As 30yean old said Joan Paylo spokeswoman for the City department of environmental Protection. It s an unbelievable example of environmental and scientific mismanagement she said. No one remembers when such a store of Chemi cals was discovered in a non profit Type of let College officials first became aware that toxicant potentially explosive chemicals were present in the two buildings May 11, when the fire department discovered some samples of Ether Dur ing a routine inspection. Walkout halts burials in san Francisco area Colma Calif. A burials were postponed tuesday after Union workers struck it san Francisco Bay area cemeteries tit a dispute Over non Union subcontractors and health Bene fit. During this strike there won t be any inter ment. Mortuaries will have to hold the bodies said Bruce Green weekend manager or Wood Lawn memorial Park in Colma. The strikers however did not interfere with memorial Day visitors. In 1985, More than 600 bodies went unburied until a Long strike was settled. The main Issue in the strike which began monday and is the area s fifth cemetery walkout since 1971, was the use of non Union subcontractors said Carolyn Del Gaudio business agent for the cemetery worker and greens attendants Union local 265. Firm s owner accused in Iran arms Sale plan Boston a the owner of an air cargo company faces Federal charges that he participated in a is million scheme to sell a Summa Chine gun design to Iran official said tuesday. Jerry Hyatt president of air cargo marketing in Wenham mass., was released on bail tues Day four Days after he was arrested. In a hearing Friday before . Magistrate Patti saris in bos ton he was charged with conspiracy to Export weapons to the iranian government. Hyatt 47, allegedly was present when a new England weapons designer and a Washington arms merchant met at teas twice in the past two years to discuss the sate of the sub machine gun called a Nomad for production in Iran said assistant . Attorney Herve courage in new York. A . Customs agent posing As an arms dealer with iranian connections tracked the Deal Gouraige said. May is past and la folks have quit quaking los Angeles a the nation s second largest City survived May without being destroyed by a disastrous Earth quake contrary to dire predictions by astrologers and followers of the 16th-Cen Tury French seer nostradamus that Nugget of Good news is followed by a dire prediction of another sort this Lime from members of the scientific Community who say apocalyptic prophecies Are a kind of Industry thai thrives in trend conscious California. Astronomer Andy Fraknoi said he expects More somber prophecies because for this rather Large and lucrative new age business to keep churning out sales they need something cosmic every year or Fraknoi executive officer of the astronomical society of the Pacific in san Francisco blamed the attention the nostradamus prediction got on the Media for failing to emphasize thai scientists said the predictions were bunk. The seismic scare was spurred by a purported prediction in vague poems by the astrologer nostradamus who died in 1566. In the 1981 movie the Man who saw tomorrow Orson Welles claimed nostradamus forecast that a quake would destroy the new City sup Posedly los Angeles when certain plan ets were aligned in May 1988. Psychic Hamilton Farmer also predicted an 8.3-Magnitudc quake would wreak havoc while other psychic and astrologers offered a variety of Dales for Southern California s demise. Much of the Doon aying focused on May 10. Although Nancy Reagan s per Sonal astrologer Joan Quigley predicted that the quake would hit May 5. The comic strip doonesbury satirized the predictions and scientists called the forecasts nonsense saying that nostradamus did t predict a quake thai the planets weren t aligned and that even if they were the alignment would t trigger a quake. But thousands of truly fearful Resi dents called hot lines Al Griffith Observatory and the California Institute of technology in Pasadena. Some stocked up on emergency Tup Plica and nostradamus books and video tapes while others left town including an estimated 1,000 or More cambodian refugees who were frightened by a Strong real quake thai rocked los Angeles last october we need a Campaign for the Media to isl say no no astrology no ufos no Bigfoot stories no psychics Fraknoi said. When you gel Temple just Call another journalist and they la help you just say another figure prominent in the scientific study of the heavens criticized the prophecy business we be gone through the month of May with extraordinary unfounded predictions of a catastrophic earthquake in los Angeles and to me this is like yell ing fire in a crowded theater. Those who scared people should be ashamed of themselves Laid Griffith Observatory director Edwin Krupp. There were Many different people predicting every Date of the month be fore we were done Knipp Laid tue. Day. Perhaps to the disappointment of those who had predicted a quake and counted on one the City of los Angeles is still Here
