Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report reveals that in 1986 Rome had an income of $57.3 million and expenses of $114 million. The biggest cost was $50.6 million to pay 2,315 employees. Since there is no pension fund, $7.3 million of operating expenses went to 885 retirees. Vatican Radio and publishing added an additional $21.5 million worth of red ink, counting salaries...
...report not only avoids details on investments but also leaves out entire sectors of finance. The most notable omission is the independent, secretive and scandal-tainted "Vatican bank," which holds sizable assets on behalf of ecclesiastical organizations in many nations. The Vatican's world-missionary agency also operates on a separate budget...
Then came the Bakker mess, first the revelation of the PTL leader's adultery and then of his hush-money payments and mismanagement. The avenging angel took wing again. Swaggart passed word to denominational leaders of an impending Charlotte Observer report on the hush money and pressed for a cleanup. He declared the scandal to be a "cancer that needs to be excised from the body of Christ...
...insisted on pressing charges, he could go to prison for admitting that he had committed sodomy. In January, University of Illinois Music Professor Michael Cameron was kicked and beaten on a Chicago street by a man who repeatedly asked him if he was "straight." When Cameron tried to report the incident to two policemen, the officers drove away...
...report released by the National Institute of Justice last fall concluded that "homosexuals are probably the most frequent victims" of hate-motivated violence, but the "criminal-justice system -- like the rest of society -- has not recognized the seriousness" of the problem. Senator Alan Cranston of California has introduced a bill that would require the Justice Department to record all hate crimes against homosexuals. Once that information is in hand, Cranston says, he will move to make such crimes a violation of federal civil rights laws...