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GARLAND (AP) — Onlookers,
satellite trucks and legions of re
porters streamed Tuesday into a
Dallas suburb where a Taiwanese
religious group awaited God’s ap
pearance on television’s Channel 18
— an event they say presages His re
turn to earth next week.
But the appointed hour passed
early Wednesday without the
promised TV appearance.
The group’s leader said his faith
was not shaken.
“Even though the image doesn’t
show on television, I don’t have any
reason to doubt the existence of the
Supreme Being, God, in this uni
verse,” church leader Chen Heng-
ming said through a translator at a
midnight-hour news conference.
Police erected barricades and
cordoned off a 165-house area in
the tree-lined neighborhood
around Ridgedale Drive, where
nearly 140 members of God’s Salva
tion Church are living in various up
scale houses. The main house, their
leader’s, serves as their church.
Chen, known to followers as
“Teacher Chen,” had said God
would appear on Channel 18
“I don’t have any rea
son to doubt the
existence of the
Supreme Being, God,
in this universe.”
Chen Hengming
God's Salvation Church leader
across the country at 12:01 a.m.
Wednesday to mark the beginning
of his return.
In Garland, cable Channel 18 of
fers religious-oriented program
ming: in nearby Dallas, it is a home-
shopping channel. There is no sta
tion on broadcast Channel 18.
After midnight, the cable chan
nels continued with their scheduled
programs. The broadcast channel
had only white noise.
Though church members —
most clad entirely in white, with
white hats — have spoken openly
about their principles in the past,
on Tuesday they politely declined
comment as they entered the
fenced-in backyard of Chen’s
house.
“I’m sorry. I can’t,” one said gen
tly in Mandarin Chinese, smiling as
he waved off a reporter.
At 8 p.m. Tuesday, church mem
bers began arriving at Chen’s house
with their children.
Most carried sleeping bags or
bedrolls. All the adults wore the
trademark white cowboy hats that
the group has favored in recent
months.
Ex-mistress sentenced to 3-year term
LUBBOCK (AP)—The
ex-mistress of former
Housing Secretary Henry
Cisneros, at one time the
star witness in his inde
pendent counsel investi
gation, was sentenced to
3 1/2 years in federal
prisonWednesday for ob
struction of justice and
bank fraud.
It was Jones who pros
ecutors say received
$185,000 in hush-money
payments from Cisneros
from 1990-92, after their 2
1/2-year extramarital af
fair disintegrated.
Attorney General Janet
Reno called for a special
prosecutor in 1994 when
it appeared Cisneros
might have grossly un
derstated the payments
during an FBI back
ground check.
Jones, 48, became a tar
get herself in 1996 when
prosecutors caught her in
a series of lies about evi-
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dence, including whether
she provided original
copies of taped conversa
tions with Cisneros or
copies. She was indicted
on 28 counts last year and
agreed to a plea ,
deal Jan. 15.
“My defini
tion of a crimi
nal is someone
who committed
a crime against
society or
against another
person,” said
Jones, who will
spend her sen
tence at the Carswell Fed
eral Medical Center in
Fort Worth because of a
decade-long bout with
depression. “By no means
do I think of myself as a
criminal, that I ever have
been or that I ever will be.”
Even without Jones’ as
sistance, prosecutors won
an 18-count indictment of
Cisneros in Washington on
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Cisneros
Dec. 11. Jones also faces
two obstruction counts
there that are not covered
by her Lubbock plea
arrangement, which does
not require her testimony
against Cisneros.
In her first
public state
ments about the
3-year-old inves
tigation, Jones
lamented that
she was going to
jail for what she
said was a victim
less crime.
“We have
children across the na
tion shooting other chil
dren, and we’re spending
millions and millions
and millions of dollars on
this,” said Jones, refer
ring to Tuesday’s
Arkansas school shoot
ings. The price tag on the
Cisneros investigation is
estimated to be between
$4 million and $6 million
and climbing.
Independent Counsel
David Barrett did not re
turn a phone message left
at his Washington office
by The Associated Press.
Jones had entered into a
1996 immunity agreement
in exchange for testimony
against Cisneros, but Bar
rett said she nullified it by
continuing to lie and hide
evidence, such as original.
recordings of phone con
versations with Cisneros.
Jones, who returned to
her hometown of Uibbock
after the affair ruined her
marriage, pleaded guilty to
obstruction of justice, con
spiracy, bank fraud and
money laundering.
The money launder
ing charge carried a pos
sible seven-year sen
tence, and defense
attorney David Guinn
said he could not guaran
tee Jones that a jury
would find her innocent.
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