European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 08, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. Septembers 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 Bakker ruled competent trial resumes Charlotte. . Api a Federal judge ruled Jim Bakker competent to stand trial on fraud charges wednesday after a government psychiatrist testified the i to founder was not going Cray when he broke Down last week. Bakker s trial continued nearly a week after he was found hiding under a Couch and appeared to he hallucinating in his Law yer s office sept. 1.1 be was sent to a Federal prison in Butner for psychiatric evaluation. For the first time in three years the whole situation came Home to him and he began to cry Sally Johnson chief of psychiatric services at the prison told . District judge Robert Potter. He is not going  Johnson Testi fied with jurors absent he has no hidden mental illness. The stress Ihal he s feeling is Normal. I can t Rule u oui that it won t Hap pen again but i can t Rule it in  assistant . Attorney Jerry Miller asked Johnson if she Felt Bakker was hallucinating when he left Conn last week. I did not Label it As hallucinatory Phe  she replied. She said  told her he had t Felt Well and that radio and television news Crews gathered at the courthouse took on the form of frightening animals. She said he told her they appeared As Large ants with  she added that Bakker insisted he had t lost touch with reality. Potter ordered Bakker released from Federal marshals custody and asked Bak scr. Who was brought to court in leg Irons and Handcuffs to stand and answer questions. Do you understand what you Are on trial Here fur the judge asked Bakker. Who is accused of fleecing followers of his i to ministry yes  Bakker responded quietly. Asked in he was Able to assist his lawyers. Bakker said i m very tired hut i believe i  Bakker. 49. Showed Little emotion some times hanging his head and staring at the floor. He wore a suit his wife. Tammy Faye. Had brought him. Tammy Flakker. Who attended the hear ing with other family members has pro tested her husband s treatment at the Feder Al prison Hospital. This should not he allowed in the 1 nit de states of  was her onh com ment As she left the courthouse. Potter after meeting with attorneys in Chambers also denied defense lawyers motions for a mistrial for a continuance and for dismissal of the indictment against Bakker. Bakker. Who resigned from the i to ministry in 1987 during a sex and Money scandal went on trial aug. 28 on conspiracy and fraud charges. Prosecutors said he used nearly $4 million in ministry funds to live in High style. If convicted on All 24 counts against him. He could receive 120 years in prison and More than $5 million in fines. After wednesday s lunch break former i to. Vice resident Steve Nelson who col lapsed under defense Cross examination aug. 30. Resumed testifying for the prosecution. Questioned by assistant . Attorney Jerry Miller Nelson said he wont to Lakier and Richard Dortch another cd pal vice president to express his concern Over the number of lifetime partnerships sold at heritage Usa the Christian Retreat and amusement Park created by Bakker. Prosecutors contend that Bakker Over sold partnerships despite his statement. On to and in promotional literature that there was a limit. A $1,000 donation gave a part Ner free lodging in the 500-room hotel three nights a year. I told them we had problems getting people in there Nelson said. I told them we could not sell  he said Bak Ker and Dortch told him to keep Selling the partnerships. Dortch indicted with Bakker pleaded guilty to four counts of fraud and conspiracy and was sentenced to eight years in Pris on and a $200,000 Fine. Defense attorney Harold Bender who was questioning Nelson last week when the witness fainted chose not o Cross examine him wednesday. In the mistrial motion. Bender said the collapse had prejudiced the jury against Bakker. Bakker appeared More Alert during Nel son s testimony. He smiled chatted with attorney Sand reviewed documents. Border agent slain in try to arrest alien smugglers Fresno. Calif. A a undercover . Border patrol agent was shot to death and his partner wounded wednesday while posing As employers offering Cash for illegal aliens investigators said. The smugglers opened fire on the agents As they tried to make an arrest at a Fresno convenience store parking lot. Police said. Four people were taken into custody after authorities sealed off the residential neighbourhood and searched on foot and w Ith a helicopter. The dead agent was identified As Keith Connelly. 42. Agent Ted Jordan shot in the Chest was in serious Condi Tion at a Hospital authorities said. The two had arranged through an informant to Swap Cash for workers at the convenience store said j. William Carter chief . Border  agent. The Exchange would have been that our agents would have consummated the Deal by paying the smugglers a fee of about $50 1. Carter said. The Deal a pm sour about 1 40  Carter said it was unknown if there were illegal aliens at the scene. One of the wounded agents fired at the suspects before backup agent arrived and began shooting. Carter said. Two suspects sped off in a station Wagon and two others ran in opposite directions said sgt. Jerry Dyer head of a swat learn thai sealed off the area. It was not known if any suspects were shot but Dyer said one of the men arrested was bleeding. Residents awakened by helicopter spotlights and swat officers combing the neighbourhood said they saw the suspects climbing Over fences and running Between Bushes. Police arrested a woman hiding near the shooting scene less than an hour later and two other suspects were captured by 5 . The final suspect was dragged out of a Side Yard around 7 20 ., witnesses said. Melissa Diaz a 28-year-old Telephone operator from Long Beach cnlif., is joined by husband Rudy and Antony and Cleopatra look alikes As she displays Winner More than $1 million she won on a million Dollar baby progressive Slot machine at Caesar s Palace in " Cuas. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept. 8, 19-19 great Britain and the soviet Union concluded an agreement whereby Britain would receive i million tons of russian Grain with shipments to begin soon British officials announced. 30 years ago today. ,. Seit. 8. 1959 representatives from the big four nations the United slates the soviet Union France and Britain meeting in Washington announced they had agreed to resume disarmament talks in a 10-nation East West group in Geneva Early in 1960. 20 years ago today. Sept. 8, 1969 sen. Everett Mckinley Dirksen of Illinois the Senate Republican Leader died at Waller Reed  Hospital two hours after suffering a sudden cardiac  10 years ago today. Sept. 8, 1979 soviet Union warships will have port and shipyard facilities on a greek Island for the first time in 140 years under a new agreement announced by the government of recce counter fear $ 100 Bills hit South Florida Post offices Miami a South Florida s Post offices will no longer accept $100 Hills because 93 fake ones were unwittingly accepted by Miami postal workers in three Days last week. In the one year period just before this Only 120 counterfeit Bills of All de nominations were passed at the postal  said Karen Schultz spokeswoman for the Miami division of the postal service. Most of the phony Bills were used to buy Money orders and officials suspect one person is responsible. So far no other Post office in the division has been hit by the counterfeiter Schult said. Last year $1.9 million Worth of counterfeit Bills were passed in the Miami area said secret service special agent Allan Cramer. That puts Miami ahead of the $1.8 million passed in new York and $ 1.4 million in to Angeles. The Miami division of the postal sen ice is considering buying counterfeit detectors for its 155 offices in Broward Palm Beach Dade Monroe. Lee Hen dry and Collier counties said Schultz. Detector machines which Cost be tween $200 and $1.000, work on the premise thai an trained operator will be Able to see the magnetic or fiber contents of genuine Bills said Paul Hackinberry assistant special agent in charge of the secret service s Miami office. But expert counterfeiters can fool the machine and its user he said