European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday october 28. 1991 the stars and stripes b 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 Sevag Garth 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 s personal Lite. 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. Quot we will be discontinuing the massive television ministry a Brewer said Friday. Quot 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 nime. Quot i know the ministry is not insolvent by any  Brewer said. A i can Tell you there is not going to be any financial  Brewer said that the ministry s current Board a consisting of himself Donnie Swaggart. And Clyde Ami Elizabeth Fuller of Chattanooga Tenn. A intends to a try to protect the Church and the school and the children s ministry Quot Clyde Fuller is a trucking company executive. Donnie Swaggart has relieved his father As ministries chairman while Jimmy Swaggart seeks professional counsel Inu 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 Gorman s own television ministry. In 10ss, Gorman disclosed photographs of Swaggart and a prostitute a revelation that led to the ouster of Swaggart by the assemblies of god. The nation s largest be n t Cost a Quot a 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 Jiniv 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 gop s 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 Quot president is concerned a Yeutter responded later adding. A the gentleman is not Welcome in any party with which i am  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 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 i d 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 conference. A under fire for opening some hospitals to publicly the new York times Washington a in a first step toward a significant policy change that has touched off an outcry trom veterans the department of veterans affairs is opening to the general Public some of its underused medical centers in Rural areas. A officials say the Pilot project scheduled to begin Early next year would bring Quality care to non veterans living in Remote areas while keeping open underused hospitals that might otherwise be forced to close. A if this works Quot said Edward j. Derwinski the Secie tary of veterans affairs Quot it will Benefit veterans because it will make it More feasible for us to maintain some of our Remote facilities whose Long term viability we would have to question at some Point. He added Quot it will also serve a Basic social needs population in areas with poor Blacks or sparsely settled farms or Indian  or. Louis w. Sullivan the Secretary of health and human services said in an interview that he had been concerned about the closing of hundreds of hospitals serving the Rural poor since he had been president of Morehouse school of Medicine in Atlanta. He said he spoke last year to Derwinski about the idea of sharing the veterans hospitals. But the plan has caused a juror among veterans who see it As eroding the systems primary Mission of serving those who have served their country and As a first step toward transforming the veterans attains health care system into a National medical program for the poor. Quot the a system has been underfunded Lor the past decade Quot said Bill Smith a spokesman for the veterans of foreign wars. Quot there is under staffing. Veterans Are being turned away in some areas. There Are Long waiting lines. It is inconceivable that the department would turn its attention toward taking care of non veterans. A other groups who oppose the idea include the paralysed veterans of America disabled american Veter ans the american legion and the military coalition. James n. Magill director of legislative service for vow said Quot once a is opened up to certain medically undeserved segments of the general population a however meritorious this May appear a the temptation to turn the a health care system into an Extension or form of National health care for the medically indigent would prove All too irresistible to Many members of Congress and the  Derwinski played Down the groups opposition saying a they instinctively object to any innovation. And i done to mean that in a critical Way. I mean it in a descriptive Way. Its part of our  but he said that if the Pilot project proves Success us. Quot then we will have to carefully construct programs by looking at other facilities scattered around the country that fit the same  he said some of the hospitals have been hurl As veterans moved to other parts of the country