European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A. Quot Page 10 a the stars and stripes tuesday july 9, 1991 new Orleans a the Man who helped bring Down rival evangelist Jimmy Swaggart in a sex scandal finds his own love life in the spotlight As a $90 million defamation lawsuit against Swaggart goes to trial. The trial of the 1987 civil lawsuit began monday with jury selection. Marvin Gorman accuses Swaggart of conspiring to destroy his smaller but successful new Orleans television ministry by falsely accusing him of numerous adulterous affairs. A he has admitted to a single a immoral act Quot with a woman. Gorman says Swaggart wanted to take Over his congregation. Gorman was dismissed in 1986 from the assemblies of god the nations largest pentecostal denomination after Swaggart and others confronted him about alleged sexual indiscretions. He is no longer on television but has established a storefront Church in suburban Metairie. A Swaggart a fall came in 1988, with his tearful confession to his Baton Rouge congregation that he had sinned. Swaggart did not specify the sin but his confession came after Gorman gave Church officials photographs of Swaggart outside a Motel with a prostitute. Gorman s lawyers claim there Are More than 100 a disputed facts a in the Case including whether a Swaggart and others told people that Gorman had sex with 100 women. A fathered illegitimate children. A was possessed by a Demon or is satan. During the trial in civil District court Gorman will be barred from bringing up Swaggart a sex life a although his own is Central to the Case. Women who Swaggart claims had sexual encounters with Gorman Are among hundreds of witnesses expected to testify. Swaggart said in court papers that a married woman who attended Gormanos first Assembly of god Church in new Orleans claimed to have had a two year affair with Gorman. A second woman claimed she went to Gorman in 1975 for advice on How to handle the stress of being a ministers wife. A after 45 minutes he stated that he knew what my problem was. He said that my no. 1 problem was sex. He stated that my. Problem was that i. Had never climaxed sexually a the woman said in a deposition. She said she later had sex with Gorman. A evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and his wife Frances enter a new Orleans court  Page 1 president s View for the need to redoubled efforts at completing a Start agreement and accepted the president s invitation to Send a delegation to Washington to work on the negotiations a said White House press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater. Fitzwater said the soviet ambassador to Washington Victor Komp Levtov conveyed the Gorbachev response to Brent scowcroft the White House National Security adviser on sunday. A the soviet delegation headed by foreign minister Alexander Bessmer Nyoh will arrive on wednesday evening a Fitzwater said. The delegation will also include Mikhail Moiseyev the chief of the soviet general staff and soviet Deputy foreign minister Alexei Obukho. They will meet with Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii and other american counterparts on thursday afternoon and Friday. A a lot depends on this meeting a Bush said. A the president welcomes this decision by president Gorbachev and Hopes it can Lead to further Progress in the Start negotiations a Fitzwater said. In Moscow soviet foreign ministry spokesman Vitaly Churkin said monday a we expect this meeting will help energize Wor k on final stage of Start  Bush told reporters monday morning As he returned to the White House from Camp David md., that he had heard Back from Gorbachev. He did not elaborate. Bush said saturday that he sent the message to prod Gorbachev to a energize his bureaucracy and conclude the strategic arms reduction treaty by the endow july. A i want to get their team moving As fast As ours is a the president said then. The . Ambassador to Moscow Jack f. Matlock jr., delivered Bush a message orally to Gorbachev on saturday. A senior soviet official in Moscow said sunday that the communication from Bush was useful and positive and could help break the logjam Over Start. Bush is still hoping to go to Moscow for a Summit in late july but he is insisting on a finished strategic arms treaty first. The two superpowers have been working for nine years on a pact to reduce their Long Range nuclear arsenals by 30 percent. Fitzwater said there was no set Date beyond which it would be too late to arrange a Moscow Summit in late july., a from a practical standpoint we could probably go through the Summit in London after the Gorbachev Bush meeting and still make the Summit Quot in Moscow he said. Bush and Gorbachev will meet Over lunch in London on july 17 after the three Day economic Summit of the worlds seven major industrialized nations. Bush plans to head from London to Greece and Turkey for five Days returning to Washington on july 22. A if we get Back from the Summit on the 22nd, we could probably turn it around within a week and go Back Quot said the spokesman. A a we re still shooting for the end of july. That a what the president is pushing for in his communications a said Fitzwater Slovenia from Page 1 the agreement must also be approved by the collective Federal presidency and the slovenian parliament. As did an earlier european Community brokered cease fire the agreement suspends the implementation of the slovenian and croatian Independence declarations without suspending the actual declarations. It also sets a three month Cooling off period and an aug. I deadline for the Start of negotiations on a new Federal Structure for Yugoslavia a six republics and two autonomous provinces. Federal president Stipe Mesic a croat said after the Accord was reached that a peace begins  the agreement cements a four Day truce that has largely held in Slovenia since its lightly armed forces repulsed army tanks and warplanes seeking to re impose yugoslav sovereignty Over the republics Borders with Italy Austria and Hungary. The Accord must be ratified by Slovenia a parliament and Yugoslavia a collective presidency. The slovenian lawmakers began deliberations on the Accord monday and the presidency planned to meet in the evening. In Ljubljana capital of Slovenia the agreement visibly lowered tension. Iron rail and barbed wire barricades blocking major intersections were pushed aside on major thoroughfares and the roads teemed again with traffic. Under the Accord slovenian police will control the republics 27 Border posts a a Symbol for slovenes of their Long sought sovereignty a but turn Over Revenue from customs duties to the Federal government. European Community mediators who have interceded three times since the Independence declarations on crisis missions helped broker the Accord. The dec representative to the talks dutch foreign minister Hans Van Den Broek called the agreement Complex and cautioned a it remains to be seen whether we have had any  the agreement also called on both sides to release All prisoners of War. On monday the army general staff announced that the last remaining army prisoners about 100 officers captured by slovenian defense forces had been released overnight. Slovenia had held More than 2,400 Federal army prisoners captured during fighting with yugoslav forces since the republics Independence declaration. All but the officers had been freed before sunday. The agreement also culled for Federal army units to return to their Barracks the deactivation of the slovenian territorial defense and a return to quarters by Midnight monday. There was no word on whether the army would abide by the Accord. The army dominated by officers from the hard line Republic of Serbia did not heed civilian authority when it intervened in Slovenia. Leaders in Croatia and Slovenia said they believe the army is still not under the control of the government. Thirty five to 50 dec observers Are to arrive tuesday to begin to Monitor compliance with the cease fire and terms of the Accord slovenian foreign minister Dimitrij Rupil  Page 1 safety said a you could see the correlation Between base closures and uncertainties because these were the people who were established and had families Over Here kids in school and perhaps they got Over Here and bought a German or British car a nah of a sudden it comes out that the base is going to be closed or May be closed and that led sometimes to related Domestic problems and things a Baur said. Baur and Parlatore said the key to reducing the number and severity of accidents is to continually Alert commanders supervisors and other airmen to the dangers of driving and to the emotional factors that can Lead to accidents. Also essential is keeping command personnel up to Date on closures and realignments a so they will remain focused on the Job and the task at hand a Baur said. He noted that stress Levels overseas could be reduced in 1992 by the recent decision by the air Force to fill Many of the vacant military slots at its overseas commands including Safe. Navy Jet shoots Down stricken Hawkeye Washington apr a Navy Early warning aircraft caught fire Over the Mediterranean sea on monday and its Crew of file bailed out before a . Jet fighter shot it Down a Navy official said. The e-2c Hawkeye the Carrier based Navy version a acs Jet made by Grumman aerospace corp., was on a a routine air patrol in support of operation provide Comfort the Allied Relief Effort in Northern Iraq. One of its engines caught fire at about 1 p.m., said it. Fred Henney a Navy spokesman at the Pentagon. The Crew bailed out about 40 Miles Southeast of Cyprus after determining that the fire could not be extinguished. A Navy f/a-18 Hornet shot it Down with its 20mm Gatling gun a for reasons of safety a Henney said. A All five Crew members were recovered by helicopters from the aircraft Carrier Forrestal and the guided missile Cruiser Yorktown Henney said. No one was seriously injured the Navy said. The Early warning aircraft was stationed aboard the Forrestal