Word: baton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly became Southern California's largest and most dangerous charcoal grill. When the cargo vessel Fort Providence sailed into port near Los Angeles, area residents were alarmed to hear that the ship was carrying 54,000 tons of coal close to igniting. Under way from Baton Rouge, La., to Taiwan, the coal began heating up, and its temperature reached 169 degrees...
...also telecasts weekly services from his own 22,000-member Baptist church in Lynchburg, Va., and operates Liberty University, a 7,500-student institution, and a 1.5 million-subscriber cable system, the Liberty Broadcasting Network. Annual proceeds from Falwell's ministry amount to about $84 million. In Baton Rouge, La., Pentecostal Jimmy Swaggart, 52, has his 4,300-member local church, plus daily and weekly TV shows; he stage-manages elaborate preaching tours in the U.S.and overseas and leads a Bible college. Proceeds from the ministry: some $142 million...
...other major televangelist organizations. The committee has asked PTL representatives, among others, to appear at a hearing, probably in September. Texas Democrat J.J. Pickle, a member of the committee, last week met with the eleven religious broadcasters involved in the probe, including Falwell and Preacher Jimmy Swaggart of Baton Rouge, La., to question them closely about TV ministries' finances...
...paid $265,000 in hush money to cover up an afternoon of adultery in 1980 with Jessica Hahn, a 21-year-old church secretary from Long Island, N.Y. At Bakker's request, Falwell became PTL's new head, amid rumors that another TV evangelist, Jimmy Swaggart of Baton Rouge, La., was conspiring to wrest control...
...Netherlands, about 200 demonstrators with clubs tried to blockade the entrance to the Pechiney aluminum firm near the southern town of Borssele. Police mounted a baton charge, and at least one police officer and one demonstrator were wounded. No arrests were reported...