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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.
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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
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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.
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rebels in jmg time to evolve,” Friedman said,
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“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-
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.■ntr to deal with the legacy of dictator Josef
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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.
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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.
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