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Thursday, March 26, 1987/The Battalion/Page 13 Jalwell says Bakker can’t return as^o former PTL post anytime soon m ifORT MILL, S.C. (AP) — The ^lARev. Jerry Falwell said Wednesday it ^jijwould be impossible for the Rev. Jim i^S^Bker to return to his scandal- Kcked evangelical empire anytime langmge while a new board member of inaccurate- the organization vowed: “There will stages, quo! f; beno funeral for PTL.” the four Kit, Meanwhile, two California reli- d by the end(®>u-s activists said a $115,000 pay- Rit made by Bakker was not black- u ther informaiaii as he claimed but settlement of ^Rreatened lawsuit over his sexual : Miance with a church secretary oreigners, S teven years ago. ans, are miss; b remained unclear where most eved heldbipfthe money ended up. ■Rnd a Tennessee minister said he ) soldiers in; alajns to show leaders of Bakker’s de- ! to stop a M(J|tnination, the Springfield Mo.- c Syrians ad:jasH Assemblies of God, evidence vo Saudi Ayhat PTL officials attempted to cover ^reports of the sexual misconduct. Falwell, who will preside here to day at the first meeting of the new PTL board he formed since succeed ing Bakker as chairman last week, told a civic club luncheon Wednes day in Cocoa Beach, Fla., that he had heard rumors Bakker wants to re turn to PTL. “I hear rumors that he wants to return soon,” said Falwell, a funda mentalist Baptist minister who founded the Moral Majority. But he told the Space Coast Tiger Bay Club that if that happened, “it would make our job impossible.” He added that he didn’t know how he and the new board could deal with the credibility issue if Bak ker were to return right away. “I’m not saying he could never re turn,” he said. “That’s up to God, not Jerry Falwell.” He also said he had no desire to remain as the head of PTL beyond the time needed for “fence-mend- ing.” On Tuesday, Charles Cookman, the district superintendent of the First Assembly of God Church, said in Dunn, N.C., that the church stood by Bakker and his wife, Tammy Faye, and that the door was open for Bakker to return to the ministry. One of the new board members arriving in Fort Mill on Wednesday for the meeting was the Rev. James Robison, a Southern Baptist TV pre acher who vowed that PTL would survive the current crisis. Robison also chastized other reli gious leaders for engaging in an evangelical civil war over the $172 million PTL. “Jesus treated Judas with more dignity that some preachers will treat other preachers,” Robison, based in Fort Worth, Texas, said on Wednesday’s “PTL Club,” the daily PTL television program. Bakker said Monday from his Palm Springs, Calif., home that he quit the 500,000-member ministry to thwart a “diabolical plot” to take over PTL, which stands for Praise the Lord or People That Love. His attorney later identified evan gelist Jimmy Swaggart as instigator of the scheme. Swaggart denied trying to bring down PTL, but admitted telling As semblies of God leaders what he knew about Bakker’s sexual encoun ter. He also said his fellow Pentecostal evangelist was a “cancer” that needed to be excised from the body of Christ. •r American n were kidiu; campus oiy ;e in west fci Robert and MithilaiJ is a legal res I States tudy shows AIDS may stay dormant an average of 15 years after infection ers ^EW YORK (AP) — The AIDS _— . may lie dormant for an average COUbfp years before the disease ap- suggesting that millions of 'tc+nnc;# 5 rna y y et a PP ear p e °pi e a i- JOI Uyweady infected, according to a study. Bhe study estimates that around he rnd of 1984, 2.5 million Ameri- ij K had been infected and would AIDS over the next 30 years )0R, El Sal Jr so, barring medical advances. |y armed leftist pier. hkjI Wednr: id student'. but then r \one and t The calculations also suggest that two-thirds of AIDS cases will arise 10 to 20 years after infection, but re searcher Malcolm Rees stressed Wednesday that the numbers are not firm projections. His study is “a picture of the thing,” Rees said in a telephone in terview. “It’s not the last word on it. I’m not claiming it is.” He also said that if AIDS patients survive longer in the future with the disease, the 15-year average would refer more to time to death rather than time to the appearance of the disease. Rees, an economist studying the cost of AIDS for the British govern ment, reports his calculations in Thursday’s issue of the British jour nal Nature. They are based on a mathematical interpretation of data from AIDS patients who were in- Researcher: More chemotherapy may prevent many cancer deaths woman If!' held for c |J a blue mm I § \\ DIEGO (AP) — Wider use of ,irmv,but] Jieinotherapy could save the lives it say where ;ac h year of an additional 11,000 ' : I Bnis of colon and rectal cancer, landon. heac« nation’s second-largest cancer >1 staff, ha jjle], a federal cancer expert says, o help pen Di. Michael A. Friedman said in- Rosa Cl ast \ear that settles the question of tl SanSalv whether drug treatment is worth- ■e after this cancer is surgically said aftei enmved. 3Ut4:45p.H “Every operable patient with colo- the imprt'ectal cancer should be considered i guerrilla' orjehemotherapy,” he said, lents are resident Reagan was operated ■or colon cancer almost two years of the Sa: igo and did not receive chemothe- nd high' 'apy. 10:30 a.m IfThis information has taken a rebels in jmg time to evolve,” Friedman said, tercepted aff ling two of. j n other pet® nts were not .inaldo GoW “Were such a patient (as Reagan) to present today, I think he should be considered for chemotherapy.” Friedman is chief of the Clinical Investigations Branch of the Na tional Cancer Institute. He made his recommendation at a meeting of the American Cancer Society that con cluded Wednesday. Colon and rectal cancer follow lung cancer as the biggest cancer killer. Friedman said 140,000 new cases will be diagnosed in the United States this year. In a quarter of the patients, the cancer will be too widespread to re move. But the rest — 106,500 this year — will have surgery. Of these, 62,000 will survive at least five years. The other 44,500 probably aren’t cured because some cancer is left be hind after surgery. Friedman says these patients potentially could have benefited from chemotherapy. He estimates that an additional 6,000 patients with colon cancer and 5,000 with rectal cancer could be cured “if these therapies were uni formly and appropriately applied.” He said this change in strategy has begun to emerge over the last year. It’s based, in part, on five recent studies. They showed between an 8 percentage- and 24-percentage- point improvement in the survival of patients who got chemotherapy. Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr., head of the cancer institute, noted that the colon cancer death rate has fallen substantially in recent decades. He said drug treatment probably has played a role in that drop. fected by transfusions, and national data on numbers of AIDS cases. The estimates differ from some prior research. While Rees calcu lated 2.5 million infected Americans by the end of 1984 who are destined to get AIDS, the federal government estimated a total of 1 million to 2 million infected Americans by Tune 1986. Other projections have been shorter-term. Government scientists last year projected 200,000 to 310,000 cases by the end of 1991, mostly from people already infected, and said longer-term projections were too uncertain. The govern ment estimates 20 percent to 30 per cent of infected people develop AIDS within five years. A National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine report last year estimated that 25 percent to 50 per cent of infected people will get AIDS in five to 10 years. Dr. James Chin, chief of the infec tious disease branch of the Califor nia Department of Health Services, said, “Beyond 10 years, we just said you could speculate, but we didn’t want to speculate.” Chin said Rees’ calculation of a 15-year average latent period is pos sible, but “we begin to speculate when we go beyond the data we have.” Rees said his calculations imply that a very high proportion of peo ple who are infected develop AIDS eventually, but he declinea to be quoted on a percentage. Soviet Union takes new look at Stalin’s life sury Policem^SCOW — From a poet’s lament to ar- ;cunty< T So Mes on World War II, the Soviet press is now .■ntr to deal with the legacy of dictator Josef repor.ero[« in K ist Llc| l!r Stalin, who ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 :hc San ^•■j] hj s death in 1953, was exalted as a genius erview, n (j ur j n g his lifetime. He became a virtual non-per- I- son in the state-controlled Soviet press after Ni- _Juta S. Khrushchev denounced Stalin’s “cult of lersonality” in 1956. Since then, official mention of the former leader has been largely limited to his role as gen- Hlissimo in World War II. Stalin has been lauded as the architect of the Red Army’s victory over Nazi Germany. I In past weeks, however, state-run media have pjhted articles questioning Stalin’s political and military judgment and verse recalling that dur ing his rule millions of people vanished into labor camps. rommittee, |I'he latest publications are clearly linked to So- s way, we'jviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s campaign for nts one bjitpenness that has permitted wider discussion of introducti(i f |0me social issues since he came to power in tly excitinfflMarch 1985. :e ■ds But Stalin’s legacy is a more controversial sub ject than most because more than three decades after his death his name still evokes strong and conflicting emotions among his countrymen. Many Soviets regard Stalin with horror be cause of the terror campaign and purges he con ducted against real or imagined opponents. For others, Stalin means victory in World War II and the order and discipline that diminished under subsequent leaders. The latest issue of the Oktyabr literary monthly includes a poem written by Anna Akh matova in 1935-40, in which the late poet mourns the loss of her loved ones and expresses her feel ings of helplessness. Akhmatova’s husband, poet Nikolai Gumilev, was shot for alleged anti-Soviet activity in 1921, and her son disappeared into Stalin’s camps at the height of the terror. In the poem “Requiem,” echoing the despair she shared with many others at the time, Akhma tova writes: This woman is sick This woman is alone Husband in the grave, son in prison Pray for me. Now widely considered one of her country’s greatest modern writers, Akhmatova died in 1966 after being expelled from the official writ ers union under Stalin for “bourgeois deca dence” and then rehabilitated. A recent issue of the weekly Argument! I Fakti cast doubt on Stalin’s wisdom as a diplomat and military leader by printing an interview with his torian A. Samsonov, who criticized the dictator for not preparing better for war with Hitler’s Germany. In the same issue, the magazine printed read ers’ letters about Stalin, some of which showed the deep respect some Soviets still have for the wartime leader. In an interview published last week in the Sovi- etskaya Kultura newspaper, historian Yuri Afa nasyev called for an objective assessment of Stalin and, if necessary, a new edition of his works. Afanasyev, rector of the Institute for History and Archives, said the Soviet Union needs a clear understanding of its past, including Stalin’s rule, in order to face the present and future. s counter^ mid Inouvt hey woulc rommittee jnauthoriz^ uers. 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