Word: christian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like to think of myself as a good Christian person. But I had best not earn a reputation for being free with my money or they will go after me again and again...
...never been a quitter," said the Rev. Jerry Falwell, choking back tears. But quitter he was last week, exhausted by unending financial woes and attacks from believers who opposed his rule at the PTL Christian conglomerate. The final straw was a decision by Federal Bankruptcy Judge Rufus Reynolds that Falwell's financial rescue plan did not accommodate creditors and contributors. Reynolds suggested that Falwell should control only, say, five of nine PTL board members. Convinced that new board members might help restore the defrocked Jim Bakker, Falwell resigned, along with top administrators and current board members. The entire affair, said...
Among the book's other disclosures: Bashir Gemayel, the Christian leader assassinated after being elected President of Lebanon in 1982, had been on the CIA payroll for years; the agency monitored Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's phone conversations during the Achille Lauro crisis; and Argentine officials supplied intelligence data to the CIA during the Falklands war, information that was passed along to Britain, Argentina's enemy in the conflict. Woodward relates that a suspect being interrogated for the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Lebanon died after being tortured by a CIA officer with an electroshock device. (The officer...
...direction, says Robertson, that steered him through negotiations to buy a defunct Virginia TV station. Starting with only $70 in cash, he created the Christian Broadcasting Network and other enterprises, such as CBN University. By the early 1970s he was one of the most prominent entrepreneurs in the rapidly growing Christian broadcasting field. Last year CBN reported $183 million in donations and revenues and employed some 4,000 people...
...coming force in the N.B.A. is a Nigerian, Houston Rocket Akeem Olajuwon (whose countryman Christian Okoye, incidentally, gained 105 yds. last week in his pro-football debut with the Kansas City Chiefs). Newell says, "I asked Akeem recently about his wonderful footwork. He replied, 'I played much soccer.' The foreign athletes' background in soccer may be a tremendous asset. They have an ambidexterity with their feet. I think if I were still coaching basketball, I'd have my team play soccer...