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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Texan
10 served on the board of the PTL
nistry says the successor to PTL
der Jim Bakker repeatedly den-
1 that money was paid to a woman
n the del * after a sexual liaison with the re-
t | lp .,'■ signed television evangelist,
that we * ie ^ ev J- Don George of Irving,
ljl ||exas, said he first questioned the
e| . • , , Rev. Richard Dortch, then PTL’s ex-
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' s 1 ' Resident, last fall about reports that
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’ nn WGeorge said that after he resigned
Feb. 18 from the PTL board — for
Basons unrelated to the sex scandal
At mwHr 1 P rom P te d Bakker’s March 19
(JWlr resignation — he heard that the
Biar/otte (N.C.) Observer was inves-
op jp dgating a similar report,
ot/ III [■George said he telephoned
Birtch and questioned him further
ifinrCl a ^ (,ut t ^ ie rumor l hat money was
pjj,] to t h e woman, who was later
identified as Jessica Hahn, a Long
Island, N.Y., church secretary.
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“He steadfastly denied it even at
that date,” George told the Los An
geles Times in a telephone interview
published Wednesday.
Dortch, who succeeded Bakker as
president of PTL, declined com
ment Tuesday, the newspaper said.
Bakker, 47, the founder, chair
man and president of the f 172 mil
lion television ministry, resigned af
ter admitting that he had sex with
the church secretary in 1980 and
that he agreed to pay her money to
keep quiet about it.
A reported $265,000 payment
was negotiated for Hahn in Feb
ruary 1985.
Hahn’s representative, Anaheim
businessman and church watchdog
Paul Roper, has said Dortch sug
gested the settlement for Hahn.
Operation of PTL, which stands
for Praise the Lord and for People
That Love, was turned over to the
Rev. Jerry Falwell, who asked
Dortch to stay on as administrator.
Falwell said last week that the
board’s auditing committee will look
into the sources of the payment to
Hahn.
George said he didn’t know where
the $265,000 came from.
“If it was personal money spent by
Jim Bakker, that would certainly not
be as severe a situation (as) if it were
learned that PTL funds were spent,
as I see it,” George said.
George, an Assemblies of God
pastor who oversees the 4,500-mem
ber Calvary Temple in the Dallas
area, said it “was a horrible, thing”
for a minister to fall into any sexual
indiscretion.
“But when you add to that . . . the
expenditure of money in the at
tempt to quiet an involved party, and
add to that the lies and untruths, it
compounds the problem dramati
cally,” George said.
George said he resigned from the
board after serving for just 15
months.
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LONDON (AP) — The House
of (he las )f Commons voted by a wide
league, p nargin Wednesday against re-
“ ^toring the death penalty, which
vas abolished in Britain 18 years
Fg°.
Lawmakers voted 342-230 to
d basebai: Jt e ^ eat a resolution that would
tave brought back capital punish-
nent for “evil murders.” It was
he seventh failure to reinstate
he death penalty since it was offi-
ially abolished in 1969.
All parties in the 650-member
Commons allowed their members
free vote, without the custom-
broaiij ir y demand to follow a party po-
ir, lowera; dtion, and a loud cheer filled the
rodome,™ lacked chamber when the result
vas announced.
Law-and-order campaigners,
purred by a wave of public revul-
ion over a terrorist attack and
he murder of a policeman,
aunched the latest bid
ie death penalty.
to restore
Investigators seeking
to question U.S. lawyer
about Pollard spy case
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. in
vestigators are seeking to question a
Washington lawyer with dual Israeli-
U.S. citizenship in connection with
the Pollard spy affair, diplomatic
and administration sources said
Wednesday.
The attorney, who was identified
as Harold Katz, allegedly allowed his
Washington apartment to be used by
Jonathan Jay Pollard’s handlers to
photocopy U.S. military documents
that Pollard smuggled from his job
as a Navy analyst, said an adminis
tration source, who spoke on condi
tion of anonymity.
A diplomatic source, who also de
manded anonymity, said Katz, who
took Israeli citizenship in 1972, also
is suspected by U.S. authorities of
being involved in payments to Pol
lard.
Israel is resisting U.S. efforts to
question Katz, who also has a home
in Tel Aviv, the Israeli capital, the
administration source said, adding
that Katz is in Israel now and that
the government does not want him
to leave.
Questions about Katz’s involve
ment in the Pollard affair were de
veloped by U.S. investigators and
not by Israeli authorities, who had
pledged full cooperation when the
spy case broke.
Pollard, a 32-year-old American
Jew, was arrested in November
1985, pleaded guilty to espionage
the following June and on March 4
was sentenced in Washington to life
in prison for selling Israel hundreds
of classified military documents in
1984-85.
His wife, Anne Henderson Pol
lard, 26, received a Five-year term
for conspiring to receive embezzled
government property and being an
accessory after the fact to possession
of defense secrets.
eeting of religious groups
orks to reform fund-raising
NEW YORK (AP) — Disturbed by
teasing instances of shabby tactics
seeking contributions, a gathering
Christian fund-raisers has vowed
8shun such practices.
"But they didn’t spell out specific
lies about it.
Representatives of about 350 or-
[nizations, declaring mistakes have
made in proliferating fund
sing methods, urged greater con-
n for accountability and biblical,
ical standards.
They also signed a joint “cove
nt” to “put no stumbling block in
lyone’s path” so ministries will not
discredited as they seek godly
ys of raising and using money.
But explicit standards for meeting
t objective weren’t laid down.
Many participants called for de
tailed guidelines — for some definite
do’s and don’ts, says Gary L. Wall,
spokesman for the affair and a New
York publisher of Christian materi
als for youth.
|“It may ultimately come to that,”
he adds, with the conference serving
as a catalyst.
IfThe unusual meeting March 9-11
in Kansas City, considered the broa
dest evangelical gathering of its
kind, involved various ministries,
schools, relief agencies and other
evangelical institutions.
Arthur C. Borden of Oakton, Va.,
executive director of the Evangelical
Council for Financial Accountability
said the conference was long over
due.
That council does set specific stan
dards of annual auditing, public dis
closure and other processes of ac
countability, which are required of
members, now totalling 354 evangel
ical organizations.
But the only widely heard TV
evangelists among members with ap
proved standards are Billy Graham’s
organization and Fred Price of Los
Angeles. Other big-time TV evange
lists don’t belong.
Nor were most of them, such as
the TV ministries of Jerry Falwell,
Oral Roberts, Jimmy Swaggart and
now-resigned Jim Bakker, rep
resented at the meeting, although
Pat Robertson’s TV ministry did
send a participant.
Results of a Gallup poll presented
there found that 46.6 percent of
Americans think most Christian
fund-raising is “ethical or honest,”
but 39.9 percent put only “some or
very little of it” on that dependable
level.
Another 2.3 percent think none
of it is upright, and a remaining
fraction don’t know.
Those distrustful of it variously
suspect misuse of funds, dishonest
leadership or blame over-commer
cialization.
The meeting heard scathing crit
icism of assorted current practices,
such as “bait and switch” tactics, ba
sing appeals on some emotion
touching cause and then using rec
eipts for something else.
Noted evangelical theologian Carl
F. H. Henry of Arlington, Va., crit
icized numerous current techniques,
such as “prosperity theology,” imply
ing the more you give the more you
get, and various “fund-raising pre
miums.”
Often, some “special spiritual
worth is attributed to tiny twigs from
the Holy Land, or mother-of-pearl
crosses from Bethlehem, or olive
wood amulets from Jerusalem,” he
said.
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