Word: visits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to the North Carolina daily, Bakker (pronounced baker) had a onetime sexual encounter with a 21-year-old church secretary during a visit to Florida. The two met in 1980, at a time when Bakker's 19-year marriage to his TV co-host Tammy Faye Bakker, now in her 40s, seemed to be foundering. (This month Tammy told her TV audience that she was drug dependent; she and her husband are currently being treated at a California center for addicts and their families.) The paper said that during 1985 the secretary and her representatives received $115,000 after...
...skies. Last week, 14 months after a joint U.S.-Canadian commission recommended that the U.S. spend $5 billion to find cleaner methods for burning coal, the President promised to commit half that amount, $2.5 billion over five years. The belated gesture should smooth the way for Reagan's visit next month to Ottawa, where environmentalists plan to greet him with demonstrations...
...viewpoints should be heard as the debate over justice in South Africa continues. Accordingly the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee this week invited Mr. Kent-Brown to participate in debate with a speaker from the African National Congress, a leader of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, during his visit here. Mr. Kent-Brown's hosts, the members of the Conservative Club, publicly heaped scorn upon this offer and refused to arrange for the debate to take place...
...doors, we are moving down to block these doors peacefully and non-violently. We have no intention of interfering with Mr. Kent-Brown's freedom of speech or movement; we act to block the back doors only so that he will leave by the front doors, so that his visit to Harvard will include interaction with a representative of the Black majority of his country, and with the many members of the Harvard community who are tonight making their opposition to apartheid known...
...course, their parental bliss is shortlived. Soon the police are on their trail, two escaped cons come to visit and all hell breaks loose in the person of Leonard Smalls, the Mad Biker from the Apocalypse. Smalls is a self-described "manhunter" with an endless supply of weaponry and a black Harley that belches flame...