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Since this spring, Cairo-Based Correspondent David S. Jackson has logged thousands of miles crisscrossing the gulf region from Saudi Arabia to Bahrain, Kuwait, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. His real preparation for this week's assignment, however, began nearly nine years ago, when he started covering Khomeini's fundamentalist Islamic revolution. That brought him eyeball to eyeball with the Ayatullah, whom Jackson interviewed in a Paris suburb in 1979. "Back then," recalls Jackson, "none of us expected Khomeini would still be as domineering, provocative and full of vitality as his revolution. The passions that I saw sweeping the country then...
...passed in June, that called for a cease-fire in the Iran-Iraq war, an exchange of prisoners and peace negotiations. Tehran has so far refused to listen to the call. But that, says Sick, should discourage no one. He and most other experts agree that in dealing with fundamentalist radicalism, the most important weapons in the American arsenal are probably firmness and patience...
...controversy in the field of televangelism is being stirred by six Protestant conglomerates of varying wealth and influence. The gaudiest is scandal-tarred PTL: proceeds from all operations in 1986 came to $129 million. PTL is currently run by Fundamentalist Jerry Falwell, 53, who also telecasts weekly services from his own 22,000-member Baptist church in Lynchburg, Va., and operates Liberty University, a 7,500-student institution, and a 1.5 million-subscriber cable system, the Liberty Broadcasting Network. Annual proceeds from Falwell's ministry amount to about $84 million. In Baton Rouge, La., Pentecostal Jimmy Swaggart...
...Hour and Robertson's daily 700 Club just about held even. The only gainer of the group, ironically, was The ptl Show, which climbed from 250,000 to 302,000 households. That increase may have been due to curiosity seekers or to Falwell supporters who tuned in after the Fundamentalist minister took over the program...
...further. Within weeks of losing his grip on power at the Fort Mill ministry, Bakker began denouncing Falwell as a usurper. A solid core of Bakker loyalists at PTL apparently believes him. One complicating issue is that Falwell is a Fundamentalist, a group that rejects the faith healing and speaking in tongues practiced by the Pentecostal PTL faithful. Amid last week's emergency pitch for donations, Falwell disclosed an apparent plot by dissident PTL members to sabotage his fund-raising efforts. During the funding telethon, PTL lines were jammed by crank and obscene calls. Falwell eventually announced that no pledges...