Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the Bakkers and their cronies had siphoned huge sums of money from PTL and allegations that Jim had been involved in homosexual activity. Four weeks ago, Bakker was ousted from the ministry by the Assemblies of God, a major Pentecostal denomination. Jim and Tammy fled to their handsome retreat in Palm Springs, Calif., from which Jim sent messages indicating that at some point he hoped to reclaim his domain...
...Nightline, Bakker, musing about a possible return to PTL, proposed to set up a new 25-member board to govern the organization. The notion of the Bakkers' making a comeback might seem incredible, but supportive mail has poured in to the Palm Springs retreat. Some Pentecostals think Bakker could try to set up a clone of Heritage USA in California, or an independent Charismatic congregation somewhere. Indeed, one Chattanooga, Tenn., TV station has already offered to help Bakker launch a new gospel show. Says the Rev. Tommy Barnett, of the flourishing (15,000-member) Phoenix First Assembly...
...Hermes has the power to force Quinta to respond or to destroy it, but such a victory would constitute a defeat. One crew member tells the captain, "Whatever you do -- if you do not retreat -- will result in a fiasco." ( The captain has grown increasingly pessimistic: "Any detailed study of an alien technology was futile. Its fragments, like pieces of a broken mirror, would not yield a coherent picture; they were the indistinct result, only, of the thing that had shattered...
...Pentagon last week continued its retreat from charges that three U.S. Marine guards swapped secrets for sex in the Soviet Union. Deciding that a two-year statute of limitation prevents it from prosecuting Sergeant John J. Weirick for allegedly allowing Soviet spies into the Leningrad consulate sometime in 1981-82, the Marine Corps released Weirick, 26, from the Camp Pendleton, Calif., brig...
...American public should decide that the nation has no worthwhile role to play in the Persian Gulf or that the commitment there is not worth the price, it would be the most serious retreat yet from the leadership role the U.S. assumed after World War II. Until that time, Britain had considered the Middle East part of its sphere of influence and sought to protect Western interests there. Britain's global retreat in the wake of the war marked the emergence of America's world role. Washington resisted Soviet probes into Iran in 1946, and since then has played...