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While Oral Roberts struggles with budgets, Fundamentalist Preacher Jerry Falwell faces a different kind of money pinch. The Lynchburg, Va., televangelist has long used toll-free phone numbers to assist viewers seeking spiritual help. The code-800 exchange has also worked well for fund raising, since those who phone in free are more likely to make pledges...
...preacher estimates that annoyance calls cost him more than $1 million last year, not counting lost donations. Falwell, who is considering legal action, regards the calls as "unlawful activities" that do "injury to the cause of Christ...
...President, and to win that prize must endure certain deferential, hand-dirtying things. Thus he had to neutralize conservatives, who for years have scorned him. His courtship of Religious Leader Jerry Falwell last year reeked of ambition. Bush addressed Falwell's followers and heaped extravagant praise on the preacher. A month earlier he accepted an invitation to speak at a dinner honoring New Hampshire's right-wing publisher, the late William Loeb. For years Loeb had abused Bush in print, labeling him an incompetent hypocrite and, even worse, a wimp. So ingratiating were the Vice President's remarks about Loeb...
...more than $160,000 each day. That was the good news. But there was also the bad news: a television channel in Washington dumped two January episodes of his 30-minute telecast. Seven other outlets, including stations in Tulsa and Dallas, are now monitoring each of the United Methodist preacher's syndicated shows to see if they fit the stations' standards. The Tulsa Tribune, a somewhat sympathetic observer of Roberts over the years, declared in an editorial headline, COME OFF IT, ORAL...
...University, his 22-year- old institution in Tulsa, can serve in overseas missions. Viewers were urged to send at least $100 apiece during the next three months to help reach a goal of $4.5 million. Then Roberts dropped a bombshell. If donations fell short, said the 68-year-old preacher, God would strike him down. "I'm asking you to help extend my life," he said. "We're at the point where God could call Oral Roberts home in March...