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Bakker's fall from this sugarplum land of his own creation began on a warm December day in 1980 at a hotel in Clearwater Beach, Fla. At the time, Jim and Tammy, although sunny on camera, were going through a chilly time offstage. According to some accounts, Evangelist John Wesley Fletcher arranged for Bakker to meet young Jessica Hahn, a secretary for the Full Gospel Tabernacle, a Pentecostal church in Massapequa, N.Y. According to Bakker's official statement in resigning as head of PTL, the brief encounter was a setup: "I was wickedly manipulated by treacherous former friends and then...
...might be called a boycott handbook. The Council on Economic Priorities, a liberal research organization based in New York City, has put out an unusual 500-page tome titled Rating America's Corporate Conscience (Addison-Wesley; $14.95). It grades 130 major companies according to such "social" criteria as hiring minorities and avoiding investments in South Africa...
Television advertising and the media have personalized campaigns while avoiding discussion of the issues, said Wesley Pippert, political correspondent for United Press International, who is studying journalistic ethics. "The t.v. ads are not really any sort of discussion of the issues involved," he said...
...bearded karate instructor who had moved to Forsyth County from California. So he began organizing what he called a walk for brotherhood. Amid threats and lack of support, he called off his plans. Others insisted on going ahead. Soon local Klansmen let it be known that, as Sheriff Wesley Walraven put it, "they want to exercise their rights also...
...program's research staff spent 18 months tracking down some four dozen witnesses, 21 of whom appear in the TV trial. Those testifying for the prosecution range from experts in pathology and ballistics to former Oswald acquaintances like Buell Wesley Frazier, who drove him to work on the day of the assassination. The defense witnesses include Dr. Cyril Wecht, a pathologist, who argues that a single bullet could not (as the official version states) have struck both Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally, and others who give evidence suggesting that Oswald was the patsy in a conspiracy, possibly involving Oswald...