European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday october 28, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7swaggart group to abandon broadcasting sex scandals damaged evangelist s ministry Baton Rouge la. Up a Jimmy Swaggart ministries seared by the second sex scandal involving the fire and Brimstone evangelist will relinquish its International television operation a Board member said. At his Zenith in 1987, Swaggart a television ministry reached an estimated 510 million people in 145 countries and brought in about $150 million a year to his Church Bible College and mail order business. Donations averaged $500,000 daily. But troubles regarding Swaggart a personal life exacerbated by an incident earlier this month involving a prostitute have dogged the religious outfit. Now the ministry plans to sell its extensive television production equipment and abandon its broadcast efforts according to Dennis Brewer sr., of Dallas a lawyer and member of the Board of Jimmy Swaggart ministries. I a we will be discontinuing the massive television ministry a Brewer said Friday. A we May televise some services but As far As an International television ministry we re not going to try to keep that going at this time. A i know the ministry is not insolvent by any Means a Brewer said. A i can Tell you there is not going to be any financial Brewer said that the ministry a current Board a consisting of himself Donnie Swaggart and Clyde and Elizabeth Fuller of Chattanooga Tenn. A intends to a try to protect the Church and the school and the children a Clyde Fuller is a trucking company executive. Donnie Swaggart has relieved his father As ministries chairman while Jimmy Swaggart seeks professional counselling and Relief from other pressures including loss of a $10 million lawsuit brought by rival evangelist Marvin Gorman of new Orleans. Gorman charged that Jimmy Swaggart spread lies that caused the downfall of Gormanos own television ministry. In 1988, Gorman disclosed photographs of Swaggart and a prostitute a revelation that led to the ouster of Swaggart by the assemblies of god the nations largest pentecostal denomination. On oct. 11, police in Indio calif., found a prostitute with Swaggart after they stopped his car for traffic violations. The prostitute said Swaggart had asked her to have sex with him. The Jimmy Swaggart Bible College Down to about 370 students from a High of More than 1,000 before the scandals broke will be scaled Back and lose its basketball team officials disclosed last week. Gop democratic chiefs Square off a and denounce Louisiana s Duke Cambridge mass. A gop National chairman Clayton Yeutter disavowed former Kun flux klan Leader David Duke a Louisiana gubernatorial candidate during a debate saturday with his democratic counterpart. The democrats National chairman Ronald Brown said Duke a Republican is just one of the Gopas troubles. A a you be got a lot of problems. You be got a lot of people who must cause you to cringe a Brown told Yeutter during the debate at Harvard University. A David Duke is not a Republican As far As in a concerned nor As far As the president is concerned a Yeutter responded later adding a the gentleman is not Welcome in any party with which i am associated.�?�. Duke has been disavowed by president Bush and other gop leaders. Brown said Bush has neglected the problems of crime homelessness health care and unemployment in favor of foreign policy. A president Bush has an economic recovery plan for the soviet Union for Kuwait a Brown said. A the party of the 1990s must have an economic recovery plan for the United Brown called the 1980s, a period dominated by Republican administrations a a decade of greed and cynicism a decade where the Rich got Richer the poor got poorer and the Middle class had the Lifeblood sucked out of Yeutter meanwhile stressed the Republican ideals of self Reliance and limited government. He also said the democrats Lack a candidate with Bush a foreign a policy experience. A i done to think anyone in the Democrat democratic party chairman Ronald Brown left and gop chairman Clayton Yeutter shake hands before a debate saturday at Harvard University in Cambridge mass. In party has the foggiest ideas How to conduct foreign policy he said. Both men faced criticism from the audience at Harvard a John f. Kennedy school of government for the use of negative Campaign tactics. A a in a like to see the level of debate go up a Yeutter said. A but As Long As americans respond to negative campaigning we re going to have negative Brown said he was willing to work with Yeutter to map out new Campaign guidelines. Time to rename Custer Battlefield historian says Helena Mont. A it. Col. George Custer is so hated by indians that it is time to change the name of the Montana Battlefield honouring him says the former chief historian of the National Park service. Robert Utley said he resisted the idea for years but changed his mind As he Learned More about How indians View their treatment by Whites during the settlement of the West. A they look upon Custer As a personification of All that was wrong in american Indian policy All that was brutal All that was unjust a he said. The . House passed legislation in june that would rename the Custer Battlefield National Monument As the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. The Bill sponsored by rep. Ben night horse Campbell d-colo., the Only american Indian member of Congress was sent to the Senate. President Bush has indicated he would sign it. The Bill sets up a process for building a memorial on the site to the indians who died there. The National Park service estimates about 100 indians were killed in the fight. The cemetery where the . Army soldiers who died on last stand Hill Are buried would be named the Custer National cemetery. Custer was among approximately 265 soldiers and civilians killed by Sioux and Cheyenne indians in the june 25,1876, Battle. Utley considered an expert on the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Frontier military was in Helena for a history assails Edwards for supporting Jackson s bid Crowley la. Apr former Kun flux klan Leader David Duke said saturday that re electing former gov. Edwin Edwards would betray the gop because Edwards once supported Jesse Jackson for president. Duke a Republican who has been disavowed by president Bush and other National party leaders made the comments to a crowd at the Start of the Rice festival Parade in this Community seen As an Edwards stronghold. Edwards and Duke both Rode in the Parade As they campaigned for the nov. 16 Runoff for governor. In the first round on oct. 19, gov. Buddy Roemer lost to the two challengers. Edwards a populist Democrat who is seeking a fourth term As governor won his first election As a councilman in Crowley in 1954. He left the governorship in 1987 after he was acquitted of two Federal racketeering trials. A Edwin Edwards supported Jesse Jackson for president a Duke said to people gathered around him at the festival. A any Republican who would vote for Edwin Edwards is betraying his Jackson who is Black is among the democratic party a More Liberal figures. He has run for president twice. Duke in the past has lashed out against what he Calls Ultra Liberal democrats. Both candidates were met with big cheers. Duke was also met with Boos when he passed groups of Blacks. Between 1977 and 1980 he served As the a Kkt a grand wizard a the White supremacist groups top office. He left the klan in 1980. An unusually Large number of police was assigned to the Parade. Three dozen police officers surrounded the float called a the Duke bandwagon a and 30 officers surrounded Edwards. There were no arrests. Before the Parade the two candidates traded barbs in separate interviews Over the subject of christianity. Duke a state representative said Edwards a is trying to paint me bad because of my former klan past of years he criticized Edwards assertion in 1984 that he believed Jesus Christ Wasny to resurrected. Edwards had later recanted that view4 Edwards said it is a a ludicrous for Duke to claim to be the Christian candidate. A i am very disturbed when he brings up his born again self and couples it with the same message a a Send me Money a a Edwards said. Roemers supporters meanwhile announced saturday they had formed a group to Back Edwards in the Runoff. The group louisianans for the future said the election is a about jobs pure and simple Quot and said the state a cannot afford to take a Chance on unproven ability a
