Word: parked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrested four times in the past year, he said, but will continue to lobby for his cause. "It's not fun going without food for 25 days, and it's not fun sitting on a steel cot in a D.C. jail, but it's not fun sleeping on a park bench or living in a shelter, either. So I'll continue to do this...
...Orthodox Jewish entrepreneur buys the theme park and TV empire from which Jim and Tammy Bakker once transmitted their high- energy evangelistic appeals. But will Christian tourists ever return...
...latest incredible news broke last week at the PTL ministry's forlorn theme park at Fort Mill, S.C., barely a tenth of the rooms were occupied in the Heritage Grand Hotel. Along the adjoining Main Street shopping arcade, stale popcorn was piled unsold in a vendor's cart, and saleswomen without customers knitted listlessly in a crafts shop. Cranes, brought in to construct Jim Bakker's fantasies, stood eerily idle, as they have since scandal struck 19 months...
...what's a Jewish entrepreneur going to do with a 500-acre Christian theme park, a born-again retirement village and North America's biggest all- Christian cable TV network (sent to 13 million homes, 2 million fewer than before the scandal)? "I have made no decision whatsoever" he told a press conference but said the project, with 1,700 undeveloped acres, is a good investment with excellent "breakup value." The local church that Bakker founded is not involved...
...Mernick feels uncomfortable presiding over such soul-saving shows as Zola Levitt Presents, which aims openly at persuading Jews to follow Jesus. One dubious PTL officeworker figures that to save his investment Mernick may have no choice but to foster evangelistic Christianity. "People can go anywhere for a theme park, hotel or campsite," the worker says. "Why would they want to come out here in the middle of nowhere? The reason is simple. This place is different. People come here because they want the Christian atmosphere...