European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 02, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday. September 2,1989 Bakker undergoing mental tests at prison Jim Bakker is escorted sobbing from the Federal courthouse in Charlotte . Charlotte . Api pal founder Jim Bakker will have full Access to the grounds at the prison facility where heis undergoing psychological evaluation be cause he has not been convicted of any thing a spokeswoman said Friday. . District judge Robert Potter sus Pended Bakker s fraud and conspiracy trial in its fourth Day thursday after being told by Bakker s attorney that his client was found cowering in a fetal Posi Tion with his head under a Couch. Potter ordered the evangelist to under go testing at the Federal correction Institute in Butner to Sec if he is mentally competent to stand trial. No specific information on Bakker s condition will be released Sharon Orr a spokeswoman at the facility said. Meanwhile Bakker s wife. Tammy apparently was planning to visit her husband. A staff member at Jim and Tammy ministries who requested anonymity said mrs. Bakker has left Orlando. Fla. Orr said Bakker had not made up a Visi Tor list and no word had been received from mrs. Bakker. She said Bakker would be allowed to Wear Street clothes although he was issued p an Orange prison jumpsuit on his arrival. Bakker handcuffed and Clad in the jumpsuit was Given a standing ovation thursday night by a Large crowd of in mates when he was taken to a mental health housing unit the Durham morn ing Herald reported Bakker walked past a group of patients one of them spoke to him an Bakker smiled Back an unidentified source at the correctional institution told the newspaper. Several doctors contacted said that Al though someone could fake mental ill Ness Bakker s symptoms arc consistent with stress induced thursday with the jury out of the courtroom Potter heard or. Basil Jack son a Milwaukee psychiatrist who has been treating Bakker for nine months say the pal ministry founder was de pressed and hallucinating seeing people As frightening animals out to attack him. The defense suggested that Bakker 49,be put in a private psychiatric institution but Potter ordered Bakker to the prison for up to 60 Days for evaluation. Marshals transported Bakker in hand cuffs and leg and other pal executives Are accused of diverting for their own use More than $4 million raised from follow ers. If convicted on All 24 counts Bakker could be sentenced to 120 years in prison and fined $5 million. Europeans solemnly recall beginning of Wii Frankfurt West Germany a belgian radio listeners woke up Friday to the voice of Adolf Hitler declaring War on Poland while communist East Germany promised that War and fascism will never. Again threaten our lives and those of our years to the Day after German soldiers touched off world War ii europeans marked the anniversary with memorial services commentaries and other sol emn reminders of the polish people and their army were the first to Bear the Brunt of Germany s powerful military machine soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev said. These tragic events were actually prompted by the inability of the states threatened by fascism and militarism to rally together and set up a collective Security system Gorbachev said in the message to polish president Wojcicch of the once banned Solidarity labor move ment flanked Jaruzelski on Friday As he paid homage to the Small polish Garrison in Gdansk Poland that bore the first fierce nazi onslaught on sept. 1,1939.on its morning foreign news report Belgium s Brt state radio played a tape of the nazi dictator declaring War on Poland. That was followed by the cheers of adoring germans for their frenzied has been running a we Klong series called news 39" to recapture the somber mood of the time for Young and old alike. The series has linked 50-year old film footage to troops sweep across the polish Border and bomb Warsaw and other cities was newscaster sue Law Ley s headline Friday night for viewers of the program. The War reached a dimension of horror which there had never been before and which there must never be again West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said As he referred to the unspeakable suffer ing inflicted by the War ii claimed More than so million lives including those of 6 million jews exterminated by the nazis. Poce in Colombia defuse bomb i Day offer blast in paint factory Bogota Colombia a police Friday said they deactivated a bomb made of 40 pounds of Dyna mite in my Dullin a Day after an explosion at a pain factory wounded at least 13 people. Officials met thursday night to consider widening a10 p.m.-6 . Curfew imposed wednesday to halt the wave of drug related violence news reports said. A police spokesman speaking on condition of anonymity said the latest bomb was placed at the City s sex i from Page 1 later exchanged for West German agents held in the East Forster said. After his arrest Conrad was expected to be charge with espionage. But in february West German prosecutors changed the proposed charge to treason after an expert witness concluded that the documents contained state secrets a prosecutor s spokesman , a native of scoring Ohio resided in West Germany until his arrest in 1988.except for the period september 1979 through no vember 1980, when he was cased in the United states Conrad served from 297$ until his i98s discharge with the . Army s 8th inf div in bad Kreuz Nach where Conrad continued to live after his discharge is about so Miles West of Frankfurt. Colombian Industrial thursday 33 pounds of dynamite strapped to an ice Cream Vendor s bicycle exploded at the my Dullin paint factory causing $300,000 Worth of damage in addition to injuring at least 13 people police an fire department spokesmen said. An Anonymous caller told radio stations that the so called group of extraditable is Colombia s cocaine Barons carried out the bombing and said there would Bemore attacks with More the group issued a statement aug. 24 declaring total War on the government. The group apparently Speaks on behalf of the 12 colombians the unite states wants extradited to stand trial on drug charges. The first military support personnel landed i Colombia Friday to await arrival of . Weapons and equipment under president Bush s $65 million emergency anti drug Aid package defense officials first 10 air Force support personnel arrived in Colombia from Panama and will for the unloading of military equipment for the colombians. The equipment is expected to begin arriving sunday. Medellin Colombia s second largest City in the Northwestern part of the country is the Home of the most powerful cocaine trafficking organizations in the world. The cartels Are believed to Supply up to 80 percent of the cocaine in the United Pentagon thursday said two military transport planes will be among the first shipments to spokesman Pete Williams said 200 . Mili tary personnel will be involved in operations in Colombia ranging from training to unloading. Kohl called to mind the sufferings of the jews pol Sand other victims including the several Hundred thou Sand gypsies slaughtered by the seek understanding Between the German and polish Peoples Kohl declared. This is our duty audit accords with the yearning of both Italy s leading daily newspaper Corriero Delta Sera told its readers that Europe paid the Price of its lacerations with the loss of its political Austria a commentary in the conservative Neue Kronen Zeitung the nation s most widely circulate daily newspaper presented the memories of columnist Ernst spoke about it with serious faces. Nowhere enthusiasm rather dejection. The speech of the Foh Crof september i inspired nobody to great shows of applause Trost , which was annexed by the nazis third Reich in 1938, has Long claimed that it was Hitler first victim. News Brief commissioner Giamatti Dies of heart attack Edgartown. Mass. A major league baseball commissioner a. Bartlett Gia Maiti is suffered a heart attack at his Home Friday and died later in the Hospital. He was unconscious when police arrived. Just eight Days before he was in the National spotlight when he barred Pete Rose from base Ball for betting on games. I m stunned. I just dropped him off a noon. We came up together said Deputy com missioner Francis t. Vincent jr., who has Home on Cape cod. Born in Boston on april 4, 1938, Gia Matigot an Early Start As a baseball administrator As manager of the South Hadley mass., High school team in 1951. Giamatti. Former Yale University president became commissioner on april 1, succeeding Peter Ueberroth. He had been National league president since december 1986. Bremerhaven car list a list of cars that have arrived in Bremerhaven was received without the last four numbers of the owners social Security numbers. These numbers Are required by local transportation officers before shipping is a list will be published As soon As the situation is clarified
