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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...troubled PTL ministry that Jim and Tammy Bakker abandoned amid scandal last spring heard from its biggest creditor last week. As thousands of claims were filed against the ministry to meet a deadline imposed by a federal bankruptcy court, the Internal Revenue Service came in with its long-awaited bill. PTL accountants had estimated the organization's tax debt at $5 million. That is peanuts compared with the Government's primary claim: $61.8 million, nearly a third of the ministry's $170 million in assets -- a sum that more than doubles the PTL's debt load...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Televangelism: The PTL's Day Of Reckoning | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

Then Hunter stepped into the glass slipper. "Why should I be nervous?" she recalls thinking as she walked into a Manhattan hotel suite to meet Jim Brooks and Bill Hurt. "There was no way in hell I was going to get this role." Within moments, Brooks thought otherwise. "She read her part like a dream," he says. "No, wait, I'm building legends here. She read better than a dream. She read like a gifted actress." And once this non-star got the part, she assumed a control and drive worthy of Jane. "The best thing in her is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Holly Hunter Takes Hollywood | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...accord, signed by Nicaragua, includes a pledge to halt aid to regional rebel forces and a vague commitment to reduce armed forces. "While Daniel Ortega was talking about ((peace))," Miranda charges, "he was taking part in discussions to have by far the largest armed forces in the region." The bill for the buildup would allegedly be footed by Moscow. Last week, as Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and President Reagan basked in goodwill, Miranda was kept from sight. After five weeks of debriefing by CIA, Pentagon and State Department officials, four reporters were permitted to talk with him on the condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua Tales of a Sandinista Defector | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...Themo; Arnold H. Drapkin (Consulting Picture Editor) Photographers: Eddie Adams, Terry Ashe, William Campbell, Sahm Doherty, Michael Evans, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Peter Jordan, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Neil Leifer, Ben Martin, Harry Mattison, Mark Meyer, Ralph Morse, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Stephen Northup, Bill Pierce, David Rubinger, Antonio Suarez, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...press doesn't work, Roby may be forced to use his Twin Towers--sophomore Mal Hollensteiner and Tri-Captain Bill Mohler--together to shut down Stanford's big men. The two centers are fairly slow, and should prevent the Crimson running game from operating at top speed. If Harvard is forced to use Mohler and Hollensteiner together, it will lose...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Stanford, Duke Grace Cagers' Holiday Menu | 12/18/1987 | See Source »

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