Word: baton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Disgraced in 1988 after a liaison with a Louisiana call girl, Swaggart, 56, was stopped by police in Indio, Calif., two weeks ago for a traffic violation and found to be in the company of Rosemary Garcia, an admitted streetwalker. That latest foray prompted Swaggart to resign from his Baton Rouge-based ministry last Tuesday to seek "professional counseling and medical care." But the next day the preacher reversed the decision, explaining to his congregation that God told him to return to the pulpit. Swaggart announced to supporters that "the Lord told me it's flat none of your business...
...CARNEGIE HALL MUSEUM. New York City's refurbished musical mecca celebrates its centennial with a new permanent exhibit of 200 items. Included are such memorabilia as Toscanini's baton, Benny Goodman's clarinet and a 1964 debut program autographed by the Beatles...
...former pastor of a 5,000-member First Assembly of God Church in New Orleans and TV preacher on 57 stations, led off the roundelay of forced sexual confessions. In July 1986, his fellow minister Swaggart summoned him to a makeshift tribunal at Swaggart's First Assembly headquarters in Baton Rouge, La., where Gorman was confronted with charges of adultery and pressured into resigning his ministry immediately. Gorman closed the circle two years later when he unveiled surveillance photos of Swaggart emerging from a motel room with a prostitute. That led in short order to Swaggart's ouster...
...systems. "I would love to drive down Slauson ((a black ( area)) with a flame thrower . . . We would have a barbecue," said one. "U won't believe this," said another. "That female call again said susp((ect)) returned . . . I'll check it out then I'm going to stick my baton...
...women while police stood by. After the tape aired on national television, six attackers were arrested and charged with unarmed robbery and assault. And in Fort Worth a woman standing in a friend's yard recorded a police officer beating a handcuffed car-theft suspect 28 times with his baton. The officer is under criminal investigation, and the suspect is free on bail...