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But never in my life did I intend to defraud.” Bakker shook his head in dis belief while a federal prosecutor presented arguments, as did his daughter, Tammy Sue Chapman. Bakker’s wife, Tammy Faye, did not attend the court session. Potter is nicknamed “Maxi mum Bob” after his reputation for harsh sentences, particularly in drug sentences. Bakker had faced a maximum sentence of 120 years. He could be eligible for parole in 10 years. Jessica Hahn, the church secre tary whose sexual tryst with Bak ker led to the hush money scan dal that caused him to lose control of PTL in 1987, said in a television interview that she was not satisfied with the sentence. to give to PTL,” she said. opin it won’t add up to the years that ;d t people worked to save up money Prosecutors didn’t recommend a specific sentence, but asked Pot ter for a long sentence and a heavy fine, arguing that Bakker hasn’t assumed responsibility for his crimes. The government also asked that Bakker be ordered to repay up to $100 million in money do nated by followers. V( Zsa Zsa slapped with 3 days in jail plus 120 hours of community service II BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — A judge today sentenced Zsa Zsa Gabor to three days in jail and 120 hours of community service for slapping a police officer. “If you strike a cop, you go to jail,” Municipal Judge Charles Rubin said in sentencing the Hungarian-born actress. Gabor was convicted of battery on a police officer, driving with out a valid driver’s license and having an open container of alco hol in her car. “The law applies equally to ev erybody, whether they’re rich or poor and whether they’re famous or not,” Rubin said. 6f : T I he law applies equally to everybody, whether they’re rich or poor and whether they’re famous or not.” — Charles Rubin, Municipal Judge 120 hours of community service in a shelter for homeless women The judge ordered the actress not to say anything to anyone about the case or give interviews while performing her community service, and asked reporters to stay away from her. I Th« fja/ pul stu Rubin also fined Gabor $2,350. He ordered her to perform the Earlier, Rubin denied a motion by Gabor’s new attorney, Harri son Bull, fora mistrial. 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The efficiency of these new products should partly offset the ex panded use of electricity in the ’90s. Energy projections over the past two decades have been astonishingly far off the mark, prov ing that the energy economy is too volatile to fol low a predictable path. Even so, the consensus view is that oil prices, now $16 to $18 a barrel, will hold fairly steady in the early 1990s, and then move moderately higher. Analysts are quick to note, however, that the trend in oil prices over the past two decades has been determined largely by political events and market reactions almost no one foresaw. revive atomic power. Tax dollars may be used to de P/ | scan ips ] | plosi Experts say forces already at work point to key energy themes for the 1990s: • More automobiles will be powered by fuels other than gasoline, as the nation looks for envi ronmentally safer alternatives that can lessen de pendence on foreign oil. Some may use hydro gen gas made from water, using electricity generated by the sun. Fuels made from natural gas, coal and grain are likely to become more common. • The federal government will push harder to develop a nuclear reactor with added safety fea tures, but public opposition to the atom is likely to persist. A key focus of debate: how to store growing tons of nuclear waste. Relatively “dean" energy from nuclear fusion will remain only a distant prospect. • Decisions about developing traditional U.S. energy resources — oil, natural gas and coal- will become more intertwined with worries about the harmful environmental effects of finding, ex trading, moving and burning these fossil fuels. • The nation will become more dependent on foreign oil and natural gas as domestic oil pro ducers look abroad for drilling prospects. • Houses and commercial buildings will be come more energy-efficient, with compact fluo rescent lights and other advanced appliances. les ir Wed scan in th In since throt °« I of t Icoun foun [ mon spok T1 sepai were Giron age I Bill [ spok W (Continued from page 1) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ doing,” he said. “Not only must a priest say masses he must also take care of the needs of his peo ple.” Giron believes the main obsta cle to governmental reform in his country is the brutal Guatemalan Army. “They are pure evil,” he said. “I’ve seen soldiers grabbing na tive children by their legs and smash them into the trees. Last month 1700 students, like your selves, were kidnapped and killed for organizing against the gov ernment. Their bodies appeared on the roads as a warning.” Just last year Giron himself narrowly escaped an assassination attempt that took the life of one bodyguard and seriously wounded another. Sharing the plight of his rav aged country with college stu dents will eventually lead to change in Guatemala, he said. “You are going to be the ones to change this country. You are going to run it. All we ask is that you be aware of the Central American people who want noth ing more than better chances at life,” Giron said. “Someday things will change," he said. “Our movement is grow ing very rapidly, we now have over 100,000 members. But I cannot fight only in Guatemala, I have come to America to fight here to.” ■30 ■40 V’ Medical Center 30' y/v/ 40- Next time you touchdown in HOUSTON, stay with a winner. ■50 Located adjacent to Rice. Special University Rates 50- ■40 $ 38. 00 night 40- ■30 Rush to make your reservation now 713/797-1110 6701 S. Main St., Houston, TX 77030 30' Quake (Continued from page 1) said, referring to the collapsed free way. Rescue crews have not been able to locate other bodies in the rubble, where 55 cars were trapped at rush- hour — a number considered well below a normal Tuesday, possibly because of the scheduled third game of the World Series between the Bay area’s two major league baseball teams. A traffic officer reported he was “surprised at how light traffic was” five minutes before the quake, Cali fornia Highway Patrol spokesman Thomas A. Noble said. Four sections remain inaccessible to searchers. Digging was to resume when the threatening sections were taken down, possibly by Thursday. There was no hope of finding any one alive, authorities said. “The people that are (unac counted for), I believe are responsi ble people. Many of their cars have been found on that interchange and for whatever reason their loved ones have not had contact with them,” Oakland Police Sgt. Greg Hughes said. “We’ve sent officers out to check their homes, check their jobs, and every four hours we’re talking to the families,” he said. Seismologists at the geological survey said they revised the quake’s Richter reading to 7.1 after checking data from 18 seismic stations around the world. “The original magnitude of 6.9 was based on more localized seismic readings,” Waverly Person, director of the USGS National Earthquake Information Service in Golden, Colo., said in a statement. The USGS issued a long-range af tershock forecast predicting over the next two months an 11 percent chance of a tremor of magnitude 6.0 or larger, and a 50 percent chance of one registering 5.0 or larger. The probabilities were based on statistics for California earthquakes, and not on actual measurements at the San Andreas Fault, USGS geo physicist Jim Luetgert said. More than 3,500 aftershocks, some almost imperceptible, had been detected by Tuesday morning, the USGS said. Engineers reported Tuesday that the toppled 50-foot section of the Bay Bridge was unrepairable. Offi cials for the transportation depart ment said they hope to put up a new five-lane section on the lifeline across San Francisco Bay by Nov. 16. Commuters left without the bridge and several stretches of free way fared well again Tuesday — this time under partly sunny skies with only scattered showers, transpom tion officials said. In Washington, the House voted 321 -99 to send $2.85 billion in earth quake-relief funds to Northern Cali fornia. The Senate was expected to concur Wednesday and send the leg islation to President Bush. Clyde Walthall, spokesman for Pacific Gas & Electric, said the utility estimates they’ll need to replace about 10 miles of gas distribution lines in the hard-hit Marina district, at an estimated cost of $ 10 million. He did not know how long that work would take, and said the utility was awaiting clearance from thedty before beginning the work. About 5,100 customers are with out gas service in the district, and that about 1,000 customers are also without electric service, Walthall said. M&M SCUBA & SNOW SKI Dive Cozumel December 16-23 Dive with Us Flower Gardens: $265 (Gulf of Mexico) Includes: Round Trip Airfare 7 Nights Lodging Diving November 11-12 Quad Double $579 $609 $100 will reserve your spot-Call now before it’s too late M&M Scuba & Snow Ski 817 S. Texas Ave. (by Red Lobster) 693-0104 Phillips 25 (Continued from page 1) the second body was found. “We know these people, we pray for their safety,” Cox said. “It’s a dif ficult time for all of us.” At daylight, a thin column of smoke was rising from the plant as firefighters and safety experts en tered it to judge whether it was safe to send in a larger group of rescuers. Phillips officials said the fire was contained to a few enclosed areas and that the smoke and gas being re leased were classified as irritants, but were not toxic. “The fire is just about out,” Smith said. “That was the objective over night. With daylight now we can start to account for the unac counted.” Seismologists at Rice University in nearby Houston said the blast ap peared to be the equivalent of 10 tons of dynamite. The first explo sion could be felt as far away as miles. “It was like somebody just dropped an atomic bomb,” said Kelly Manerly, a pipefitter at the plant, which makes 4.5 million pounds of plastics a day such as those used in milkjugs and toys. The blasts buckled a ceiling and blew out cafeteria windows at an el ementary school about a mile away. No one was injured, but the school’s 700 pupils were sent home. Maintenance worker Roby Clem ons said employees had 20 seconds to escape after a warning message was broadcast over the plant’s emer gency radio. Workers said they heard a hissing sound and saw a white cloud. The explosion that followed knocked them off their feet. Many then saw a fireball. “It looked like somebody set a boulder on fire and was rolling it to wards us,” Terry Crowson, 37, a construction worker. “Everybody was a-duckin’, a-dod- gin’ and a-runnin’,” D.E. Sonny Mann, 49, an iron-worker foreman who was able to account for his 150- man crew, said. “We outran the fire. “I never saw people run so fast,” added Clemons. “There’s nothing you can do but run,” said Lonnie Odgen, who has worked at the plant for 14 years. When the blast hit, pieces of metal were flying throught the air, he said. “I dove underneath a front-end loader until I didn’t see anything else coming down,” Ogden said. “It was bad. I heard a big hiss then I seen a cloud. I knew something was wrong. Something like that happens so quick. You can’t do anything about it.” Firefighters fought the blaze by pumping water from a sewage treat ment plant and the nearby Houston Ship Channel. The fire was brought under control within five hours but continued to burn. A two-mile sec tion of the heavily-traveled channel was closed for seven hours, authon ties said. No ships reported damage Plant employees were taken io| staging areas, some of them ferrieei across the channel to safety by fire- boats, so that a head count could be I taken. More than 900 people work in shifts at the plant, built in 1948or: an 800-acre complex, said Dave Dp den, spokesman at Phillips head quarters in Bartlesville, Okla. Cox said Phillips has set up hot lines for people to check on the wel fare of relatives who worked at the | plant and for those wishing to file damage claims. Phillips employees also visited the I families of missing workers over night. Officials didn’t immediately kno* what caused the explosion. Phillips environmental directc Bill Stoltz said a seal blew outonJ r ethylene loop reactor, releasing a cloud of hydrocarbon vapor. 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