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...granted to Jim and Tammy and to Richard Dortch, a top aide who joined PTL in 1984 and was defrocked along with his boss in the wake of the Hahn scandal. Instead, on an attached piece of Jim Bakker's stationery are listed bonuses totaling $800,000 for the preacher, $175,000 for his wife and $175,000 for Dortch...
...going back on TV," said Bakker. "We have - about five considerations right now." PTL is obviously not one of them. "We kind of wanted to say goodbye to it all," said Bakker, who nevertheless let it be known that he would take back his old job should Fundamentalist Preacher Jerry Falwell, who succeeded Bakker as head of PTL, have a change of heart. On Friday Falwell's PTL ministry filed for reorganization under Chapter 11, citing $71 million worth of debts owed to 1,400 creditors. "The ministry is not in the buildings," said Bakker. "If the buildings are gone...
...never heard it. A backcountry baritone canters along a line of swaying melody, taking it easy, taking everything easy. The prides, the miseries, the dalliances and departures that are the mother lode of country music, all are delved into and delivered up with the sidling grace of an unordained preacher taking the back door into honky-tonk heaven...
...iceberg." As Falwell told it, Bakker "misled me and lied to me in the meeting in Palm Springs." The Lynchburg televangelist insisted that he did not threaten Bakker with the Swaggart takeover rumor. Rather, Bakker asked him to take over PTL, saying, "You're the only preacher I trust right...
...with the biggest video operation, Republican Presidential Candidate Pat Robertson of the Christian Broadcasting Network. He briefly took time out from the campaign trail to report that April donations were down a perilous 33%. "We can't just continue to have that sort of drain," said the worried preacher...