News Digest
Bakker sentenced to 45 years in prison
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Jim
Bakker, the television evangelist who
lost his PTL empire in a sex scandal,
was sentenced to 45 years in prison
and fined $500,(XX) Tuesday for de
frauding his followers for his own
enrichment.
"I’m deeply sorry for those I have
hurt," Bakker said before he was
sentenced by U.S. District Judge
Robert Potter. "I have sinned. But
never in my life did 1 intend to de
fraud."
Bakker shook his head in disbelief
while a federal prosecutor presented
arguments, as did his daughter,
Tammy Sue Chapman. Bakker’s
wife, Tammy Faye, did not attend the
court session.
Potter is nicknamed “Maximum
Bob” alter his reputation for harsh
sentences, particularly in drug sen
tences.
Bakker had faced a maximum
sentence of 120 years, but the judge
consolidated the 24 fraud and con
spiracy counts to nine and sentenced
Bakker to five years on each. Bakker
could be eligible for parole in 10
years.
His lawyers have said since his
conviction that they would appeal,
but despite defense pleas Bakkcr was
immediately taken into custody and
was to be taken to the medium secu
rity Federal Correctional Institution
at Talladega, Ala., about 60 miles
east of Birmingham, Ala. Inmates
sent to Talladega in the past have
included Cuban detainees removed
from a federal prison at Atlanta after
riots there.
In handing down the sentence,
Potter said, “I’m concerned about
the hundreds ol letters 1 nave nere
from people who say they’d do any
thing for him and that could include
preventing Mr. Bakker from going to
prison. I believe them.”
Because of that, he said, “I think
we’re going to have to put him into
custody.”
At that point, Bakker’s daughter
broke into sobs.
Jessica Hahn, the church secretary
whose sexual tryst with Bakker led to
the hush money scandal that caused
him to lose control of PTL in 1987,
said in a television interview that she
was not sausnea wun me sentence.
“In my opinion, I still feel like it
won’t add up to the years that people
worked to save up money to give to
PTL,’’ Hahn said in an interview
broadcast on Cable News Network.
“I think he needs to spend a good
part of his life trying to get that
money back,’’ she added. “Had it
gone on for another 10 years it would
have added up to millions tnorc.”
Bakker supporter Helen Gordon
said the sentence was not fair. “Jim
Bakker’s no crook. The news media
made him look like one,’’ she said.
E. Germans protest Krenz election
BERLIN -- Egon Kren/ warned
East Germans on Tuesday to stor
street demonstrations, but 7,(XX!
marched in East Berlin alter dark to
protest his election as president. Po
lice directed traffic out of their way.
The ritual election by the custom
arily docile parliament was made
dramatic when some members voted
"no” for the first time.
In a speech afterward, Kren/ said
continuing weeks of pro-democracy
protest could cause a “worsening of
the situation, or confrontation.”
At nightfall, lines of East Berlin
ers carrying candles marched through
the central district, chanting “Egon,
who asked us?” - a recurring phrase
since Kren/. became Communist
Party chief last week - and “We are
the competition!”
Police not only did not interfere,
but directed traffic to keep the route
clear.
ADN, the official news agency,
reported the protest without criti
cism. “Several thousand people.
mostly youths" carried banners and
chanted slogans denouncing the elec
tion and "demanding changes in the
election laws, more democracy and
an open press," it said.
After his election, Krcnz reaf
firmed East Germany’s allegiance to
Communist orthodoxy, despite the
reform sweeping through the Soviet
bloc. He also promised to investigate
charges of police brutality against
pro-democracy demonstrators earlier
this month.
The new leader, who succeeded
Erich Honcckcr as Communist party
chief and president, was in charge of
police at the time.
Officials admitted for the first
time Tuesday that police had at
tacked peaceful protesters. In a report
carried by the official news agency,
the government said: "There were
instances where security officials
exceeded their authority and illegal
acts were committed against some of
those detained.”
ADN said officials decided police
shoOld use restraint “unless there is
violence or the threat of violence,”
and had prohibited the use of fire
arms.
It said police commanders had
apologized to victims of verifiable
brutality. ADN said 83 complaints
were under review and prosecutors
had taken up four eases, according to
the report prepared by the parliament
committees on national defense and
justice affairs.
Krenz said in his speech that
“proper steps will be taken if the
evidence . warrants them. Anyone
who was treated unjustly has the right
to take advantage of their legal
rights.”
Twenty-six members of the 500
seat People’s Chamber voted against
Krenz for president, although he was
the only candidate, and 26 abstained,
ADN reported.
It was the first time in East Ger
man history that members of the
Communist-controlled chamber had
voted against the sole candidate for
president.
Pro-Iranian kidnappers offer hostage swap
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Pro-Iranian
kidnappers holding at least two
American hostages reiterated in a
statement released Tuesday their of
fer to trade their captives for at least
15 Shiite Moslem comrades jailed in
Kuwait.
“We renew our firm emphasis on
the need to free our struggling breth
ren from the jails of the collaborating
Kuwaiti regime, and declare that the
Mujahedeen (holy warriors) shall not
rest until they see their brethren
free,” said Islamic Jihad, or Islamic
Holy War.
The type written statement in
Arabic was delivered anonymously
to the offices of the independent
newspaper An-Nahar and a Western
news agency in Moslem west Beirut.
The text was accompanied by a
photograph of American Terry A.
Anderson, the longest held of the 18
western hostages in Lebanon. Ander
son, chief Middle East correspondent
for The Associated Press, was kid
napped March 16, 1985.
The picture showed a clean
shaven, smiling Anderson. He was
wearing glasses and a yellow
sweater. Anderson, who turns 42 on
Friday, already has marked four
birthdays in captivity.
Islamic Jihad also holds Thomas
Sutherland, 57, of Fort Collins, Colo.
He was acting dean of agriculture at
the American University of Beirut
when he was abducted June 9, 1985.
The Shiite Moslems arc jailed in
Kuwait on terrorist charges stem
ming from the December 1983
bombings of the U.S. and French
embassies. Kuwait has refused previ
ous demands to release the prisoners.
The copy of the statement deliv
ered to An-Nahar was accompanied
by two pictures of the U.S. Marine
base and the headquarters of the
French paratroopers that were blasted
by simultaneous truck-bombings on
Oct. 23, 1983.
Islamic Jihad said it issued the
statement to mark the anniversary of
the bombings in which 241 American
servicemen and 58 French soldiers
were killed.
Andy Manhart/Daily Nebraskan
Beer guide wants to bring
class to drinking vocabulary
luinlajin -it a oeer tastes like
a wet dog, beer lovers should know
it, according to a new guide to
British brews.
But if it has “a clean, crystal
malt palate with more than a hint of
Seville oranges about it,” that,
too, should be stated out loud with
out fear of sounding like a wine
snob, says the Good Beer Guide.
The guide, published Monday
by the Campaign for Real Ale,
aims to go beyond the time-hon
ored but undisccming request for
“a pint of bitter, please” and put a
touch of class into the beer-drink
ing vocabulary.
Among terms appearing in the
guide is “wet dog.” as in: “Light,
dry and hoppy, often with an excel
lent finish, but can sutler from a
lack of any particular aroma, or
smell a little sulphury like a wet
dog.’*
That description is applied to a
Kentish brew, one of 342 beers
described in the guide.
Other terms include marzipan,
rancid, spicy and worty.
Then there is “Tom Cat” -* any
brew with a “pungcntly urinous,
skunky” flavor.
The campaign’s tasters at
tended training sessions to educate
their palates, and approached the
job like wine experts, sniffing first
and sometimes nibbling bread to
refresh their taste buds when mov
ing from one brew to another.
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Crews search tor victims or Monday blast
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gency crews searched the charred,
twisted rubble of a plastics plant
Tuesday looking for 22 missing
workers feared dead in fiery explo
sions that hurled wreckage miles
away. At least two people were killed
and 124 injured.
• “There’s just nothing left,” Har
ris County Sheriff Johnny Kleven
hagen said alter venturing into the
still-smoldering plant No. 5 at the
Phillips Petroleum Co. complex.
Officials located but could not
remove the body of a second victim
Tuesday, partly buried in mounds of
concrete and steel beams. They said it
would take heavy equipment to fully
search the ruins. One body was found
Monday.
Fires that followed the blasts and
were fueled by highly flammable
chemicals had been contained in
small areas. Only a thin column of
smoke rose from the plant Tuesday,
24 hours after the first explosions,
which shattered windows three miles
away and were felt 25 miles away.
Some enure buildings inside the
chemical plant complex had disap
peared, Klevcnhagcn said, and else
where pipes and metal framework
were broken and dangling.
“It is devastated,” Klevcnhagcn
said. “Major, major damage. It’s
going to take extremely heavy equip
ment to remove the debris.”
Geologists predict 50-50 chance of damaging aftershock
SAN FRANCISCO ~ Only nine
people remained unaccounted for
Tuesday -- one week after Northern
California’s ravaging earthquake --
and geologists predicted a 50-50
chance by Christmas of a major after
shock capable of causing consider
able damage.
“The people that are (unac
counted for), 1 believe arc respon
sible people. Many of their cars have
been found on dial interchange and
for whatever reason their loved ones
have not had contact with them,”
Zsa Zsa Gabor sentenced to three days jail
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - A
judge Tuesday sentenced Zsa Zsa
Gabor to three days in jail and 120
hours of community service for slap- i
ping a police officer.
“If you strike a cop, you go to
jail,” Municipal Judge Charles Ru- j
bin said in sentencing the Hungarian
torn actress for battery on a police
officer, driving without a valid
driver’s license and having an open
container of alcohol in her car.
“The law applies equally to eve
7body, whether they’re rich or poor
md whether they’re famous or not,’’
fcubin said.
said Sgt.Greg Hughes of the Oakland
Police Department.
‘ ‘ We’vc sent officers out to check
their homes, check their jobs, and
every four hours we’re talking to the
families,’’ he said.
A week after the devastating
earthquake, the death toll rose by one
today to 63 when the coronor’s office
reported finding a 39th victim in the
rubble of Interstate 880 in Oakland.
There is no hope of finding anyone
alive there, authorities said.
A California Highway Patrol
spokesman, Capt. Mike Garvcr, said
authorities did not know of any bod
ies in the rubble of Interstate 880.
“There’s always a possibility, but
what’s the probability1/’ ’ Garver said.
Crews today were dismantling a
shaky but still standing section of I
880, which was the first elevated
Ireeway built in California.
The U.S. Geological Survey on
Tuesday also revised upward the
magnitude of the Oct. 17 quake, from
6.9 to 7.1 on the Richter scale.
Church bells tolled at 5:04 p.m.,
one week to the minute after the
quake. And 83 minutes later, at 6:27
p.m., the strongest aftershock in four
days, with a Richter scale reading of
4.5, rattled the area. There were no
immediate reports of damage.
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