Word: christian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other signs of tension appeared. Ricardo Arias Calderon, president of Panama's anti-Noriega Christian Democratic Party, was held for 45 minutes at the Panama City airport when he arrived from Miami after Delvalle's speech. Calderon and his wife were forced to reboard the plane and exiled to neighboring Costa Rica. "I refused to go," Calderon said, "and then they started shoving me and eventually had to carry me onto the plane." Three U.S. journalists were also returned to their plane and sent to Costa Rica. Panama's principal opposition newspaper, La Prensa, and a TV station owned...
...strife continued. Bakker handed over control of PTL to Jerry Falwell only to turn against him and charge that the Virginia Fundamentalist had duped him in order to grab his empire. PTL filed for bankruptcy. Falwell escaped from the mess last October, calling it the "Watergate of evangelical Christianity." But even as Falwell abandoned politics a month later, Pat ; Robertson jumped in, leaving his Christian Broadcasting Network to get along without his strong presence. Left personally unscathed in all the turmoil were more churchly TV preachers such as Billy Graham and Robert Schuller...
Guillermo Cochez, a national legislator and vice president of the opposition Christian Democratic Party, told reporters that Noriega apparently had fired two senior colonels and two majors suspected of being disloyal...
...charismatic Christian who uses fervent congregations as political beachheads, just as Jesse Jackson employs black churches, Robertson nonetheless has failed to unite even his own religious family. Likely Republican voters who describe themselves as Evangelical or Fundamentalist Christians divide 44% for Bush, 30% for Dole and only 14% for Robertson. Jackson attracts overwhelming support from blacks, churchly and secular, because his message is that of economic populism. Moralism dominates Robertson's pitch, even though he now avoids mentioning his long membership in the Baptist ministry...
When asked about Republican presidential contender Robertson's claim that his Christian Broadcasting Network had once known the location of some of the hostages and the Administration may have missed a chance for a rescue, the President said: "I can only say this. It would be very strange if he did have information...isn't it strange that no one in our Administration was apprised...