European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes thursday july 11, 1991 new Orleans up feuding television evangelists Jimmy Swaggart and Marvin Gorman Are like a two rattlesnakes in the same Cage a a prospective juror said tuesday during jury selection for a $90 million defamation lawsuit. Gorman filed the lawsuit in 1987, alleging Swaggart and others destroyed his television ministry by spreading rumours that he engaged in numerous adulterous affairs. Gorman has admitted to one extramarital Liaison with a pastors wife. Gorman retaliated against Swaggart that same year by hiring a private detective to photograph the preacher in the company of a  trial began monday several weeks after state District judge Julian Bailes ruled that Gorman could not use evidence of Swaggart a indiscretions to support his Case. Under questioning by attorneys for both sides tuesday prospective juror Jim Newchurch said he distrusted television evangelists. A i done to believe they Are out to help people. I believe they Are out to make Money a said Newchurch a Catholic. Newchurch said he could be fair in a dispute Between the two preachers. A a in a suspicious of them when it comes to dealing with people Quot he said. A but dealing with each other its two rattle snakes in the same cage.�?�. Swaggart attorney Philip Whitman immediately asked Bailes to discharge Newchurch from the jury Pool. The judge declined at that Point but later discharged Newchurch after he expressed Strong feelings against adultery. Potential jurors were being questioned by attorneys from both sides about their views on adultery and television preachers. As the process continued the judge expressed impatience with attorneys for both sides probing the religious beliefs of jury candidates. Bailes warned Gorman attorney Jesse Stone when he questioned a seventh Day adventist extensively about his thoughts on sin. A emr. Stone this Isnit a sunday school lesson a Bailes said. Both Swaggart and Gorman were forced out of the assemblies of god for refusing to Accra Church discipline for their indiscretion in. Gorman blamed his downfall on a conspiracy of lies about numerous adulterous affairs that Swaggart and others spread in Hopes of eliminating Competition. Until his Public disgrace Gorman had a growing television ministry based in new Orleans 80 Miles Down the Mississippi River from the Headquarters of Jimmy Swaggart ministries in Baton  lifesaving match Karen Baker left received the wedding gift of a lifetime. Fiance Bill mitts donated one of his kidneys to his ailing Girlfriend in a transplant operation performed june 20 in St. Louis. Doctors called the couples genetic matchup unique. Baker who had been extremely ill before the operation is Well on the Road to  court revokes death penalty Law Denver apr Colorado a supreme court struck Down the stale a death penalty Law tuesday because it automatically imposed a death sentence when factors in favor of and against a defendant were equal. Before 1988, death penalty juries had to decide whether certain aggravating factors were present whether there were mitigating factors and then whether the aggravating factors outweighed the mitigating factors. As a final step jurors had to decide whether the defendant should be sentenced to death or life imprisonment. Amendments to the statute in 1988 eliminated the last step making the death penalty automatic if mitigating factors were balanced by or outweighed by aggravating factors. The court in a 4-3 ruling objected to the absence of Bush now taking synthetic hormone to treat ailment Washington a president Bush has begun taking daily doses of synthetic thyroid hormone As the next step in his continued treatment for Graves disease the White House said tuesday. Presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwa Ter said that the substance synth roid would be taken by the president for the rest of his life. A a it a Normal and essential treatment for this disease Quot Fitzwater said. The hormone which Bush began taking tuesday will replace the natural hormone that had been produced by his overactive thyroid gland which was largely destroyed by radioactive iodine As part of the treatment process. Fitzwater said a team of physicians who examined Bush on tuesday decided that his thyroid gland had shrunk to the Point that taking synth roid was necessary. Bush was diagnosed May 8 As suffering from Graves disease a thyroid disorder blamed for the irregular heartbeat that forced him to Stop jogging and sent him to the Hospital for two nights. Bush will continue to take two drugs to regulate his heartbeat and a third to prevent blood clots. He also will continue to take one baby aspirin every other Day. Further jury deliberation once the factors Are weighed. The decision came in a Denver murder Case involving Joseph l. Young Roger a Young and Kevin fears. They were charged with first degree murder in the june 1989 slaying of Frank Magnuson who had been scheduled to testify against Roger Young in a robbery trial. A Friend of Magnuson a also was killed. In May 1990, Denver District judge Warren Martin declared the death penalty Law unconstitutional while hearing motions filed by attorneys for the three men. Prosecutors appealed the decision. But the supreme court decided to address the death penalty question As a separate matter rather than take it As an Appeal of Martins decision. State attorney general Gale Norton said the ruling could affect the Case of one of Colorado a three death Row inmates Ronald Lee White who was sentenced under the 1988 Law. The other two death Row inmates were sentenced under an earlier statute. But Liz Mcdonough a department of corrections spokeswoman said a department attorney thinks the decision does no to affect White because he committed his crime before the statute was changed. White 35, was convicted of murdering his Roommate a hotel clerk and a third Man. He was sentenced to death in May. He is scheduled to die the week of sept. 1, but appeals Are expected to delay the execution for years. The last execution in Colorado was carried out in 1967, when Luis Monge was put to death for killing his wife and three of their 10 children. Worshippers run Down beat Bandit new York apr angry churchgoers decided not to turn the other Cheek when an armed Bandit disrupted their service. They chased captured and clobbered the gunman until police rescued him. A i think he was glad to see us a police it. Eugene Albright said. A the police rescued him then arrested  Shaws Harnold Stokes 27, of Brooklyn was charged with two counts each of robbery and criminal Possession of a weapon in mondays incident and a similar robbery sunday. Churchgoers told police that the Bandit burst into the Little Jerusalem House of prayer in the Brownsville Section of Brooklyn on monday evening. Stokes allegedly brandished a handgun ordered everyone to stay Back and stole the pocketbook of a woman in the front Row Pew before fleeing. The 15 worshippers chased the Bandit for about a Block before they caught him. Quot they bailed out of the Church and chased him a Albright said. A they were not very Happy. Some of the people lost control of their  Stokes refused medical Aid after his arrest Albright said. During questioning Stokes admitted to an armed robbery of another storefront Church sunday Albright said. He is also considered a suspect in a third robbery police said. In sundays incident the Bandit threatened to fire a sawed off Shotgun if the 20 parishioners and their minister did no to give him Money Albright said. The Bandit made off with $286. Sex aide to Bakker turns Down parole St. Petersburg Fla. A the former top aide of evangelist Jim Bakker passed up a Chance for parole tuesday and chose to stay in a work release program. Richard Dortch who has cancer gave no reason for his decision said Dennis Kelly Community corrections manager for the Federal Bureau of prisons in Orlando. A Dortches attorney Mark Calloway of Charlotte n.c., would say Only that a the release program. Was All around better suited to his medical  he declined to elaborate. Dortch pleaded guilty to mail fraud wire fraud and conspiracy in the scandal that brought Down bakkers pal Empire near fort Mill . He was approved for parole last month. Dortch has been at a Halfway House since june 12. He is scheduled to be released nov. 10. He has worked during the Day As a pastor and returned to the Halfway House at night. Dortch 59, was considered one of bakkers most powerful aides. The two were indicted in december 1988 on charges of diverting More than $4 million in pt1 Money for their own use and conspiring to defraud pal ministry followers. As part of his plea agreement Dortch testified against Bakker. Bakker is serving a 45-year sentence in a Federal prison in Minnesota his sen tence was overturned this year but it has not been re sentenced