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...with his own TV-based spiritual empire, had been relatively reticent in detailing the sins of the Bakkers, who are Pentecostals. Obviously irked when Bakker leveled the charge during his first Nightline appearance, Falwell called a press conference that stretched over 90 minutes and even displaced the Iran- contra hearings on Cable News Network. Falwell fumed that Bakker "either has a terrible memory, or is very dishonest, or he is emotionally ill." He portrayed Bakker as a man consumed by avarice and said that he had documented evidence of homosexual misconduct by the fallen preacher...
After 25 years, Pfeiffer thinks it is time for his own studies of the fiasco to be made public. "Kirkpatrick's order to destroy the documents was outrageous," he commented last week. "What's to say the CIA's records on the Iran-contra matter won't disappear the same...
...state department of corrections announced last week that it had finally found a home for Singleton. His new address: Richmond (pop. 78,000), a blue collar Contra Costa suburb of San Francisco. State officials were unclear about whether Singleton would stay permanently in the area, but his neighbors certainly acted as if he was there for good. Some 200 protesters rallied at Richmond's city hall, chanting "He must go!" and listening to local politicians denounce Singleton. Said Mayor George Livingston: "My suggestion would be to put him on the barge where that garbage is and let him float away...
Authorities sympathize with the public's anger, yet contend that they have little choice. According to state policy, parolees are frequently housed in the county where they lived before they were convicted, and in Singleton's case that is Contra Costa. "When we make a decision to place someone, we make it on the department's experience and on legal grounds, not on emotion," explains Department Spokesman Robert Gore. Says Jerome Skolnick, a professor at the law school of the University of California, Berkeley: "If ((communities)) could reject notorious felons, no one would want them and where would they...
Former President Jerry Ford phoned from California to say how distressed he was that 26 members of Congress were locked into the Iran-contra diatribe, rancorously elbowing one another for television time, while the ailing American economy went unnoticed and untended...